QFS 2016 Book of Abstracts

Abstracts

Nikolai Kopnin Session Chair: James Sauls

(17.5.1946 - 20.10.2013)

Nikolai Borisovich Kopnin was a Russian physicist specializing in superconductivity and superfluidity, particularly non-equilibrium and non-stationary phenomena. One of the forces acting on quantum vortices in superfluids and superconductors is known as the ”Kopnin force” after him. In 1991, by extending his theory concerning this force to chiral superfluids, he predicted the existence of fermionic bound states, quasiparticles now known as Majorana fermions, and that it may be possible to observe them in topological superfluids and superconductors.

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