Alexander Potekhin

Alexander Yurievich Potekhin

Address:

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute
Politekhnicheskaya 26
194021 St.Petersburg
Russia

Telephone numbers: (+7 -812-) 292 7 180
(+7 -812-) 292 7 326
Mobile phone: (+7 -911-) 924 82 02
(+7 -812-) 924 82 02
E-mail: palex@astro.ioffe.ru

Research interests

Current research is mostly related to the physics of neutron stars, primarily the outer envelopes of neutron stars:
- Electron transport of heat and charge in dense plasmas
- Equation of state of dense plasmas
- Opacities of neutron-star atmospheres
- Influence of the strong magnetic field on the electron transport coefficients, equation of state, and opacities
Results of these studies have been implemented in the online databases:
Based on these results is my "Doktor nauk" (≈ habilitation) thesis, defended on 10.12.2009:
- summary ("avtoreferat") (PDF, 259 K, in Russian; typos fixed in 2011)
- full text (PDF, 5.9 M, in Russian; typos fixed in 2011)
From time to time I also participate in a study of possible variability of fundamental physical constants (see publications).
Past research (1984-1991) was mostly concerned with numerical and analytical methods of calculation of the statistical moments (e.g., mean specific intensity and its autocorrelation function) of light propagating in randomly inhomogeneous media (PhD 1991).
In the 1980s-'90s I also occasionally participated in theoretical studies of thermal desorption of atoms from surfaces, aimed at explaining the experiment (see publications).

Additional information

Page last updated on October 26, 2011.