Victor V. Moshchalkov Explained

Victor V. Moshchalkov
Birth Date:June 12, 1952
Nationality:Belgian, Russian
Workplaces:
Alma Mater:Lomonosov Moscow State University
Known For:Superconductors
Nanomagnetism
Nanophotonics

Victor V. Moshchalkov, (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Мощалков) (born on the 12th of June 1952) is a Belgian-Russian physicist. He is a professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at the KU Leuven.[1] He is noted for contributions to Type-1.5 superconductors, S-Fi-S Pi Josephson junction and scanning Hall probe microscopy. He has made notable contributions to the fields of nanostructured superconductors,[2] [3] nanophotonics and heavy fermions in solids.[4]

Education and Research

Victor V. Moshchalkov studied at the Kolmogorov Mathematical School, in Moscow (Russia), until 1969. He graduated in physics from Moscow State University, in 1975, where he was ranked first among 450 students in physics. He obtained his habilitation from the Moscow State University in 1985. From 1978 to 1991, he was Research Physicist, Assistant Professor, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductivity, at Moscow State University. From 1986 to 1991, he was Visiting Professor at Toronto University, at TH Darmstadt, at Marburg University and at RWTH Aachen. In 1991, he joined KU Leuven university as a Visiting Professor. In 1993, he was promoted to full professor and since 2017, he is professor Emeritus.

Moshchalkov's research has been focused on: nanostructured superconductors,[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] nanophotonics[13] and heavy fermions in solids.[14]

Moshchalkov was awarded a Fellowship of the American Physical Society "For important contributions to the study of vortex matter and nano-structured superconductors".[15] Specifically, in nano-structured superconductors, he discovered the vortex Mott insulator-metal transition,[6] [7] [8] symmetry-induced antivortices in equilateral triangles and squares[9] and multiple sign reversals of the vortex ratchet effect.[11] In superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids, the domain wall superconductivity was reported by him.[10] A bound vortex-antivortex pair, generated by shielding currents around pinning center, has been directly imaged by scanning Hall microscopy.[12] Optical properties of individual and coupled photonic nanostructures and Fano resonances formed in these structures have been investigated.[13] He published an explanation of the anomalous properties of heavy fermion solids in terms of the formation of the giant Abrikosov-Suhl resonance at the Fermi level.[14]

Awards and recognition

Publications

Professor Moshchalkov authored and co-authored more than 1000 scientific papers.[21] With an h-index of over 65, his work has generated over 22,000 citations.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00013090 KU Leuven profile
  2. Mixing superconductivity and magnetism. Nature Materials. 3 . 751–752 . 2004. Buzdin. A. . 11. 10.1038/nmat1246. 15516951. 31915721.
  3. Geometry spawns vortices. Nature . 408 . 783–785. 2000. Dorsey. A. . 6814 . 10.1038/35048658. 11130704 . 11427973 . free.
  4. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37315485800 IEEE Xplore profile
  5. Quantum interference in a mesoscopic superconducting loop. Nature . 361 . 617–620. 1993. Moshchalkov . V.V. . Gielen. L.. Dhallé. M.. Van Haesendonck. C.. Bruysneraede. Y.. 6413 . 10.1038/361617a0. 4313704 .
  6. Composite flux-line lattices stabilized in superconducting films by a regular array of artificial defects. Phys. Rev. Lett.. 74. 3269–3272. 1995. Baert. M. . Metlushko. V.V.. Jonckheere. R.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. Bruynseraede. Y.. 16. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.3269. 10058154.
  7. Effect of sample topology on the critical fields of mesoscopic superconductors. Nature. 373. 319–322. 1995. Moshchalkov. V.V. . Gielen. L.. Strunk. C.. Jonckheere. R.. Qiu. X.. Van Haesendonck. C.. Bruynseraede. Y.. 6512. 10.1038/373319a0. 4340954.
  8. Direct observation of vortex dynamics in superconducting films with regular arrays of defects. Science. 274. 1167–1170. 1996. Harada. K.. Kamimura. O.. Kasai. H.. Matsuda. T.. Tonomura. A.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. 5290. 10.1126/science.274.5290.1167. 8895460. 1367421.
  9. Symmetry-induced formation of antivortices in mesoscopic superconductors. Nature. 408. 833–835. 2000. Chibotaru. L.F. . Ceulemans. A.. Bruyndoncx. V.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. 6814. 10.1038/35048521. 11130716. 4387643.
  10. Domain-wall superconductivity in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids. Nature Materials. 3. 793–798. 2004. Yang. Z.R. . Lange. M.. Volodin. A.. Szymczak . R.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. 11. 10.1038/nmat1222. 15467724. 8370994.
  11. Controlled multiple reversals of a ratchet effect. Nature . 440. 651–654. 2006. de Souza Silva. C.C. . Van de Vondel. J.. Morelle. M.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. 7084 . 10.1038/nature04595. 16572166 . 4300917 .
  12. Bound vortex dipoles generated at pinning centres by Meissner current. Nature Communications . 6. 6573 . 2015. Ge. J.Y. . Gutierrez. J.. Gladilin. V.N.. Devreese. J.T.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. 10.1038/ncomms7573. 25775263 . 21792137 . free.
  13. Fano Resonances in Individual Coherent Plasmonic Nanocavities. Nano Letters. 9. 1663–1667. 2009. Verellen. N.. Sonnefraud. Y.. Sobhani. H.. Hao. F.. Moshchalkov. V.V.. Van Dorpe. P.. Nordlander. P.. Maier. S.A.. 4. 10.1021/nl9001876. 19281254.
  14. Concentrated Kondo systems. Advances in Physics. 33. 373–467. 1984. Brandt. N.B. . Moshchalkov. V.V.. 5. 10.1080/00018738400101681.
  15. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=M Citation for Moshchalkov's Fellowship of the APS
  16. https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2018_stg_panel_members.pdf ERC 2018 Starting Grant Panel members
  17. [List of American Physical Society Fellows (1998–2010)]
  18. https://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/orc-seminar-series-fano-resonances-in-reduced-symmetry-plasmonic-nanocavities University of Southampton seminar page
  19. https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf17112005_026 Five scientists honored with 'Flemish Nobel Prizes'
  20. (Russian: [[:ru:Лауреаты премии Ленинского комсомола в области науки и техники|Laureate of the USSR State Prize for Young Researchers]])
  21. http://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?Username=U0013090 Publication list of Prof Moshchalkov from KU Leuven University

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