Leonid Samuilovich Levitov ( born Leonid S. Levitov ; born March 18, 1962 ) is a Russian and American physicist. Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.
Parents - radio engineer Samuil Lazarevich Levitov (1914-1995), co-author of the monograph "Ribbon wires and cables in electronic equipment" (M .: Radio and communications, 1984), and Basya Isaevna Levitova (1923-2005).
Graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . He defended his thesis on "Symmetry and local order in quasicrystals" in 1988 under the supervision of G. M. Eliashberg . He worked as a researcher at the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1991 - at the Center d'Etude de Chimie Métallurgique at the National School of Chemical Engineering (l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie) in Paris . Since 1992 - at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In honor of L. S. Levitov, the alleged quasiparticle leviton is named. [one]
Books
- Green functions in problems (with A. V. Shitov). M .: MIPT, 1997.
- Green functions. Tasks and solutions (with A.V. Shitov). M .: Fizmatlit, 2003 .-- 390 p .; M.: MCCNMO, 2016 .-- 400 p.