Research

The laboratory includes research groups, which focus on the following areas of condensed-matter physics

Condensed-matter theory

Research is connected with the Quantum mesoscopics department of the Landau Institute for theoretical physics.

Research directions: theory of quantum-coherent phenomena in disordered condensed matter and nanostructures at low temperatures (electron and spin transport, superconductivity, magnetism, quantum Hall effect, topological phenomena in condensed matter, quantum-computation devices).

Low-temperature physics and nanophysics

Research is connected with experimental laboratories at the Institute of solid-state physics (Laboratory of superconductivity, Laboratory of non-equilibrium electronic processes ,Laboratory of electron kinetics) and the Kapitza Institute for physical problems (spin dynamics group).

Research directions: experimental research in optics and electron transport in semiconductor nanostructures, Josephson effect in superconducting nanostructures with normal metals and ferromagnets, superconducting rapid memory cells, studies of quantum low-temperature properties of low-dimensional magnets and anomalous superfluid phases of helium-3.

Hydrodynamics and turbulence

Research is connected with the Department for physics of non-equilibrium phenomena at the Landau Institute for theoretical physics and the Laboratory of quantum crystals at the Institute of solid-state physics.

Research directions include experimental and theoretical investigations of :

• physics of surface waves and solenoidal flows, hydrodynamic phenomena in thin films, two-dimensional turbulence;
• elastic turbulence, especially transport properties of microchannels;
• optical phenomena in optical fibers in the strongly nonlinear regime, laser generation and nonlinear regime of information transmission.
• interaction between the groups is provided by the joint Seminar of the laboratory.