LANDAU AND MODERN PHYSICS
This article is partially based on the text of my presentation given at the scientificmemorial session devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of L. D. Landau (1908–1968), held on 19–20 June 2008 at the Central House of Scientists, RAS, Moscow. The text of this article was created as a comment to the anniversary edition of the collected papers of L. D. Landau in 2008, but was not included in it for reasons independent of the author. Published in Phys.-Usp. 52(11), 1169–1176 (2009). – V.P.
The following sections are included:
Introduction
Phase transitions
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, the mesoscopic description, universality
Classification of phase transitions; order parameters
Fluctuation theory
Dynamics of critical fluctuations
Landau levels
Landau levels and the diamagnetism of metals
Magnetic oscillations: Shubnikov–de Haas and de Haas–van Alphen effects
Quantum Hall effect
Landau–Zener transitions
History and formulation of the results
Applications
Development of the theory
Acknowledgments
References
