JOINT ICTP/SISSA

COLLOQUIUM

ON CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS




Wednesday, 3 October -  4:30 p.m.




Luigi Stasi Seminar Room
ICTP Leonardo Building (1st floor)



Yuri A. FREIMAN
( Verkin Institute for 
Low Temperature Physics & Engineering, Kharkov )




" Actual problems of physics of cryocrystals"




Abstract

Gaseous at room temperature or low pressures and solid at low temperatures or high pressures, cryocrystals (rare gas solids, solid hydrogens, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) are one of the richest areas of contemporary physics research. As the simplest materials resembling solid-state models, they are the best testing ground for studying the physics of condensed matter.  A short review will be given of new results and actual problems of physics of cryocrystals  which were under discussion at the recent conference  Cryocrystals 2012  (Odessa, Ukraine, September 2 – 8, 2012).