Victor Nikolaevich Popov (russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Попо́в; 27 October 1937 – 16 April 1994) was a
Russian
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theoretical physicist
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known for his contribution to the quantization of non-abelian
gauge fields. His work with
Ludvig Faddeev
Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also ''Ludwig Dmitriyevich''; russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the ...
on that subject introduced the fundamental objects now known as
Faddeev–Popov ghost
In physics, Faddeev–Popov ghosts (also called Faddeev–Popov gauge ghosts or Faddeev–Popov ghost fields) are extraneous fields which are introduced into gauge quantum field theories to maintain the consistency of the path integral formulat ...
s. Popov graduated from the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Physics Faculty of Leningrad State University. Popov formed a group at LOMI in early 1965, where he remained for life.
Selected works
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* Konopleva N. P., Popov V. N. (1982): ''Gauge Fields''. Gordon & Breach Publishing Group. . (Originally published in Russian in 1972)
References
* L. Faddeev
How I came to work with Victor Popov ''Journal of Mathematical Sciences'' 88 (2), 111—113 (1998).
* N. P. Konopleva
To the memory of V. N. Popov ''Journal of Mathematical Sciences'' 88 (2), 114—115 (1998).
1937 births
1994 deaths
Soviet physicists
Theoretical physicists
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