Professor Valerij A. Shklovskij
Was born in Moscow in 1939, August 24.
Graduated from the Department of Physics, O. M. Gorkiy Kharkiv State University in 1966.
In 1966-1969 completed the postgraduate study at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
with a PhD thesis "Phase Transformations in Non-ideal Crystals on the Basis of an Izing Model".
Has obtained a Doctor of Science Degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1989 with a DSc thesis
"Non-isotermic Macrokinetics of the Heterogenous Phase Transformations in the Condensed Matter".
Since 1969 has being worked as a research scientist, since 1975 as a senior research scientist at the
Theoretical Department, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. Since 1992 up to date
is a leading research scientist at the O. I. Ahizer Institute for Theoretical Physics, NSC-KIPT.
Since 1994 Full Professor of the Low Temperature Physics Chair, Physical Department, V. N. Karazin KhNU.
Research area: Condensed Matter Physics. List of publications
Is specialized in the field of the low temperature physics of normal and superconducting metals, and
the physics of crystallization of the amorphous substances (glasses). Has elucidated the nature of the
thermal resistivity of the metal-insulator boundary. On the basis of these findings has predicted a number
of new effects in metallic films at low temperatures. Has developed a theory of the non-stationary
nonlinear dynamics of the thermal switching waves in homogeneous and non-homogeneous superconductors.
The theory of the quasistationary explosive decay within the frameworks of the thermal wavefront
bistability for the configurationally frozen metastable substance states has been formulated for the first time.
Has considered a wide field of problems of the non-linear anisotropic vortex dynamics in superconductors
in the presence of a planar pinning potential, and in the case of its competition with a point-like disorder.
All the investigations have been closely connected with experimentalists carrying out the appropriate experimental
research, in particular, with researches from the Low Temperature Physics Department, V. N. Karazin KhNU;
Kharkiv Insitute of Physics and Technology; B. I. Verkin Insitute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering;
À. Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics; Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz;
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main; Instytut Fizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
Member of the Scientific Council of the O. I. Akhizer Institute for Theoretical Physics, NSC-KIPT.
Member of the Specialized Scientific Council of the B. I. Verkin Insitute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering.
Member of the Specialized Scientific Council of the O. I. Akhizer Institute for Theoretical Physics, NSC-KIPT.
Total number of publications exceeds 80. Has supervised 3 PhD students.
Main publications:
Hot electrons in metals at low temperatures
V. A. Shklovskij, J. Low Temp. Phys. 41, 375-396 (1980), pdf
V. A. Shklovskij, Sov. Phys. JETP 51, 646-653 (1980),
The kinetics of low-temperature electron-phonon relaxation in a metallic film following instantaneous heating of electrons
A .I. Bezugly and V. A. Shklovskij, JETP 84, 1149-1163 (1997)
Thermal instability of the phase-transition front in the decay of “frozen” metastable states
V. A. Shklovskii, Sov. Phys. Dokl. 26, 1155-1158 (1981), Sov. Phys. JETP 55, 311-318 (1982)
Explosive crystallization of amorphous substances
V. A. Shklovskii and V. M. Kuz’menko, Sov. Phys. Usp. 32(2),163-180 (1989)
Effect of self-heating on flux-flow instability in superconductors near Tc
A. I. Bezugly and V. A. Shklovskij, Physica C202, 234-242 (1992)
Nonlinear resonanse study of the periodic motion of the explosive crystallization front in glasses
V. A. Shklovskij and V. N. Ostroushko, Phys. Rev. B 53, 3095-3106 (1996), pdf
Guiding of vortices and the Hall conductivity scaling in a bianisotropic planar pinning potential
V. A. Shklovskij, Phys. Rev. B 65, 092508 (2002)
Influence of point-like disorder on the Hall resistivity behaviour in an anisotropic planar pinning potential
V. A. Shklovskij, J. Low Temp. Phys. 131, 899-905 (2003)
Influence of point-like disorder on the guiding of vortices and the Hall effect in a washboard planar pinning potential
V. A. Shklovskij and O. V. Dobrovolskiy, Phys. Rev. B 74, 104511-1–14 (2006)
Guiding of vortices under competing isotropic and anisotropic pinning conditions:theory and experiment
O. K. Soroka, V. A. Shklovskij, and M. Huth, Phys. Rev. B 76, 014504-1–12
AC-driven guiding of vortices and the Hall effect in a tilted washboard planar pinning potential
V. A. Shklovskij and O. V. Dobrovolskiy, Phys. Rev. B 78, 104526-1–15 (2008), pdf
Guiding of vortices and ratchet effect in superconducting films with asymmetric pinning potential
V. A. Shklovskij and V. V. Sosedkin, Phys. Rev. B 80, 214526-1–13 (2009), pdf
Research topics
Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors
High Temperature Superconductivity
Electron-Phonon Kinetics in Normal and Superconducting Metals
Theory of Explosive Decay of Glasses
Recent and current teaching
Pinning and Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors
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Contact information
Mail: Geroev Truda 12"Á", Apt. 131, 61168, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Phone: +38 0572 68 20 26
E-mail: Valerij.A.Shklovskij at univer.kharkov.ua
Web: http://www.shklovskij.org.ua
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Short CV
International research grants