Gor'kov was internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity and had been the recipient of many prestigious awards throughout his illustrious career including the Lenin Prize, Russia's highest award for scientific achievement in 1966, the Landau Award in 1988, and the Bardeen Award in 1991.
Born in Russia in 1929, Gor'kov left Moscow for the United States in 1992 and was a founding member of the National MagLab.
"Lev was a man whose scientific accomplishments are known and admired by the physics community and whose gentle personality and keen sense of humor are equally appreciated by those fortunate enough to have known him personally," said MagLab Director Greg Boebinger.
Gor'kov was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the Humboldt Research Award in 1999 and was given the Eugene Feenberg Medal in 2004 for advancing the field of many-body physics. Just last year, Gor'kov was presented the Ugo Fano Prize by the Rome International Center for Materials Science.
Gor'kov was 87 years old.
Text by Kristin Roberts
Remembrances
"I am very sad to hear this news. Lev was a giant in his field, and a true gentleman scientist. He was always kind to me, even when it was clear that his understanding of highly correlated electrons systems was much greater than my own!"
— Christopher Wiebe, University of Winnipeg
Publications and Scientific Activities
2016
- Peculiarities of superconductivity in the single-layer FeSe/SrTiO3 interface
Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 93, 060507(R) (2016) - Phonon mechanism in the most dilute superconductorn-type SrTiO3
Gor'kov, L.P.
P. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 113, 17, 4646-4651 (2016) - Pressure and high-Tc superconductivity in sulfur hydrides;Supplementary Materials ofPressure and high-Tc superconductivity in sulfur hydrides
Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.Z.
Nature Scientific Reports, 6, 25608 (2016) - Superconducting transition temperature: Interacting Fermi gas and phonon mechanisms in the nonadiabatic regime
Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B, 93, 054517 (2016)
2015
- Antiferromagnetism of two-dimensional electronic gas on light-irradiated SrTiO3 andat LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces
Gor'kov, L.P.
J. Phys.-Condens. Mat., 27, 252001 (2015) - Two-component energy spectrum of cuprates in the pseudogap phase and its evolution with temperature and at charge ordering
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Nature Scientific Reports, 5, 8524 (2015)
2014
- Breakdown of the Fermi arcs in underdoped cuprates by incommensurate charge density waves
Gor'kov, L.P.
JETP Letters, 100, 403 (2014) - Two regimes in conductivity and the Hall coefficient of underdoped cuprates in strong magnetic fields
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitelbaum, G.B
J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 26, 042202 (2014)
2013
- Dual role of d-electrons in iron pnictides
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum G.B.
Phys. Rev. B, 87, 024504 (2013) - Kinetics of excitations on the Fermi arcs in underdoped cuprates at low temperatures
Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 88, 041104 (2013)
2012
- Kondo physics in a rare earth ion with well localized 4f electrons
Stankiewicz, J.; Evangelisti M.; Fisk Z.; Schlottmann P. and Gor'kov, L.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 257201 (2012) - Local polaronic effects in compounds with atoms of transition metals
Gor'kov, L.P.
J. Supercond. Nov. Magn., 25, 573 (2012) - Quantum oscillations in the vortex state of underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.5 and other multi-band superconductors
Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 86, 060501 (2012) - Strong electron-lattice coupling as the mechanism behind charge density wave transformations in transition-metal dichalcogenides
Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B, 85, 165142 (2012)
2010
- [Rapid Communication]Spatial inhomogeneities in iron pnictide superconductors: The formation of charge stripes
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Phys. Rev. B, 82, 020510 (2010)
2009
- Role of striction at magnetic and structural transitions in iron pnictides
Barzykin, V. (Victor) and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B, 79, 134510 (2009)
2008
- Mobility and its temperature dependence in underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 interpreted as viscous motion of charges
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 77, 180511 (2008) - On superconducting and magnetic properties of iron-oxypnictides
Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
JETP Letters, 88, 2, 131-135 (2008) - Spin resonance in three-dimensional superconductors: the case of CeCoIn5
Chubukov, A.V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 147004 (2008) - The two-component physics in the real space and in the momentum representation
Gor'kov, L. P. and Teitel'baum, G. B.
J. Phys.: Conf. Series, 108, 012009 (2008)
2007
- Gapless Fermi Surfaces of Anisotropic Multiband Superconductors in a Magnetic Field
Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 087004 (2007) - Nature of the superconducting state in the new phase in (TMTSF)2PF6 under pressure
Gor'kov, L.P. and Grigoriev, P.D.
Phys. Rev. B, 75, 020507 (2007)
2006
- Antiferromagnetism and hot spots in CeIn3
Gor'kov, L.P. and Grigoriev, P.D.
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 73, 060401 (2006) - Interplay of externally doped and thermally activated holes in LSCO and its impact on the pseudogap crossover
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 24, 247003 (2006)
2005
- On electron-hole symmetry and phase separation in some electron doped cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Solid State Commun., 136, 523 (2005) - Pseudogap regime in high-Tc cuprates as a manifestation of a frustrated phase separation (NMR view)
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Physica B, 359-361, 509-511 (2005) - Soliton phase near antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in Q1D conductors
Gor'kov, L.P. and Grigoriev, P.D.
Europhys. Lett., 71, 425 (2005)
2004
- Breakup of a Stoner model for the two-dimensional ferromagnetic quantum critical point
Dzero, M. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. B, 69, 092501-4 (2004) - Pseudogap Behavior of Nuclear Spin Relaxation in High-Tc Superconductors in Terms of Phase Separation
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
<e., 80, 195-199 (2004)
2003
- Even-odd effects in magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic domain walls
Dzero, M.; Gor'kov, L.P.; Zvezdin, A.K. and Zvezdin, K.A.
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun., 67, 100402(R) (2003) - Exact asymptotic form of the exchange interactions between shallow centers in doped semiconductors
Gor'kov, L.P. and Krotkov, P.L.
Phys. Rev. B, 68, 155206 (2003) - On Magnetoconductivity of Metallic Manganite Phases and Heterostructures
Dzero, M.; Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.Z.
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 17, 2095 (2003) - Spin relaxation and antisymmetric exchange in n-doped III-V semiconductors
Gor'kov, L.P. and Krotkov, P.L.
Phys. Rev. B, 67, 033203 (2003)
2002
- Entropy first order transition in YbInCu4
Dzero, M.O.; Gor'kov, L.P. and Zvezdin, A.K.
Physica B, 312-313, 321 (2002) - High Field Phase Diagram of the Field-Induced Superconducting State of l-(BETS)2FeCl4
Balicas, L.; Brooks, J.S.; Storr, K.; Uji, S.; Tokumoto, M.; Tanaka, H.; Kobayashi, H.; Kobayashi, A.; Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 16, 20-22, 3101 (2002) - Inhomogeneous Stripe Phase Revisited for Surface Superconductivity
Barzykin, V.V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 89, 007002 (2002) - Josephson junction with an antiferromagnetic barrier
Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.Z.
Physica C, 367, 103 (2002) - Tamm-type of States at the Interface in La1-xSrxMnO3 (x=0.4;0.55) Superlattices
Dzero, M. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Proc. Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields - IV, IV, 415 (2002) - The emerging picture of ferromagnetism in the divalent hexaborides
Fisk, Z.; Ott, H.R.; Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Physica B, 312-313, 808 (2002)
2001
- Giant Magnetic Effects and Oscillations in Antiferromagnetic Josephson Weak Link
Gor'kov, L. and Kresin, V.
Appl. Phys. Lett., 78, 3657 (2001) - Inherent Inhomogeneity in Two-Component Model for Cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P.
J. Supercond., 14, 365 (2001) - Jahn-Teller Effect and Doping in Manganites
Dzero, M.; Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.
Proc. Vibronic Interactions: Jahn-Teller Effect in Crystals and Molecules, 1, Eds. M. Kaplan, G. Zimmerman, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 57 (2001) - Superconducting 2D System with Lifted Spin Degeneracy: Mixed Singlet-Triplet State
Gor'kov, L.P. and Rashba, E.I.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 037004 (2001) - Superconductivity in an organic insulator at very high magnetic fields
Balicas, L.; Brooks, J.S.; Storr, K.; Uji, S.; Tokumoto, M.; Tanaka, H.; Kobayashi, H.; Kobayashi, A.; Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 6, 067002 (2001)
2000
- Ferromagnetism and Superstructure in Ca1-xLaxB6
Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 2207 (2000) - First order valence transition in YbInCu4 in the (B, T) plane
Dzero, M.O.; Gor'kov, L.P. and Zvezdin, A.K.
J. Phys. -Condens. Mat., 12, L1 (2000) - Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Systems as a Percolation Phenomenon
Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.Z.
J. Supercond., 13, 239 (2000) - Peculiarities in low temperature properties of doped manganites A1-xBxMnO3
Dzero, M.O.; Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.Z.
Eur. Phys. J. B, 14, 459 (2000) - Phase Separation in Two-Component Model of Cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P.
J. Supercond., 13, 765 (2000)
1999
- Quantum oscillations in superconducting mixed state (B<<Hc2)
Schrieffer, J.R. and Gor'kov, L.P.
Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields-III Proceedings (World Scientific, Singapore, eds. Fisk, Z., et al.), 3, 373 (1999)
1998
- de Haas-van Alphen effect in anisotropic superconductors in magnetic fields well below Hc2r
Schrieffer, J.R.; Gor'kov, L.P.
PRL, 80, 3360 (1998)
2015
- Selected papers of Lev P Gor'kov
Gor'kov, L.P.
World Scientific, (2015)
2014
- Selected papers of Lev P Gorkov
Gor'kov, L.P.
World Scientific Publishing, (2014)
2012
- Theory of Superconductivity: From Phenomenology to Microscopic Theory
Gor'kov, L.P.
in: "100 Years of Superconductivity", eds. H. Rogala and P. Kes, Taylor & Francis, 72-91 (2012)
2010
- Developing BCS Ideas In The Soviet Union
Gor'kov, L.P.
" BCS: 50 Years" (L N Coper & D. Feldman, eds.), Singapore: World Scientific Publishers ., 107-126 (2010) - Notes on Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity
Gor'kov, L.P.
Superconductivity in New Materials, Elsevier; Z. Fisk and H. R. Ott eds, 16-49 (2010)
2004
- Mixed-valence manganites: fundamentals and main properties
Gor'kov, L.P. and Kresin, V.Z.
Physics Reports, 400, 149-208 (2004)
2002
- Proceedings of Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields - IV
Boebinger, G.; Fisk, Z.; Gor'kov, L.P.; Lacerda, A. and Schrieffer, J.R., editors
, World Scientific, Singapore (2002) - Selected Papers of J. Robert Schrieffer
Bonesteel, N.E. and Gor'kov, L.P.
World Scientific, (2002) - Theory of Superconducting Alloys
Gor'kov, L.P.
The Physics of conventional and Unconventional Superconductors, Eds. Bennemann, K. H. and Ketterson, J. B., Springer-Verlag, 1, 347 (2002)
2002
- 900 MHz Probe Development
Brey, W.W.; Gor'kov, P.L. and Cross, T.A.
Agency: NHMFL In-House Research Program From: 1/1/2002 To: 1/1/2003 Amount: 229,601 (2002)
2000
- Properties of Novel Magnetic Systems
Gor'kov, L. P.
Agency: Naval Research Laboratory From: 4/1/00 To: 3/31/03 Amount: 300,000 (2000)
2016
- Phonon Mechanism in the Most Dilute Superconductor: n-type SrTiO3
Gor'kov, L.P.
PPHMF-8 Tallahassee January 7th (2016)
2015
- Inherent disorder and energy spectrum of the superconducting cuprates in the pseudogap phase
Gor'kov, L.P.
Ugo Fano symposium Rome, Italy Dec 17-19 (2015)
2011
- Phenomena in layered metals that coexist on a short spatial scale
Gor'kov, L.P.
NHMFL, New Frontiers in High Field Condensed Matter NMR Tallahassee, FL October 13 (2011)
2010
- Inherent Inhomogeneity of the Superconducting Iron Pnictides
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum G.B.
PPHMF-VII Tallahassee, FL December 4-7 (2010) - On the Formation of the Soliton Phase in Iron Pnictides
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, SCES 2010 Santa Fe, NM June 27-July 2 (2010)
2009
- Microscopical Phase Separation in Iron Pnictides: What is in Common to Cuprates?
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Int. Conf. on Magnetism ICM 2009 Karlsruhe, Germany July 26-31 (2009)
2008
- Ironpnictides and cuprates: What do they have in common?
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Workshop Dresden, Germany October 27-29 (2008) - Phenomenology of HTc cuprates emerging from the experimental data
Gor'kov, L.P.
Symposium CUNY, NY May 7-9 (2008) - The manifestation of two component physics of cuprates in the real space and in the momentum representation
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
25th Int. Conf. on Low Temperature Physics (LT25) Amsterdam, The Netherlands August 6-13 (2008) - The two component physics of cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Workshop MICuO: Metal Insulator transition in Cuprates Parma, Italy March 18 (2008) - Transport properties of underdoped LSCO in the pseudogap regime
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
XXXII Int. Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories Loughborough, UK August 13-18 (2008)
2007
- BCS in Russia: the end of 50s early 60s
Gor'kov, L.P.
BCS@50, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, IL October 9-12 (2007) - Gapless Fermi Surfaces in anisotropic multiband superconductors in magnetic field.
Gor'kov, L.P. and Barzykin, V.
American Physical Society March Meeting Denver, CO March 5-9 (2007) - Nature of superconducting state in the new phase of (TMTSF)2PF6 under pressure
Gor'kov, L.P. and Grigoriev, P.D.
American Physical Society March Meeting Denver, CO March 5-9 (2007) - On the (T,B)-phase diagram of Q2D multi-band superconductors
Barzykin, V. and Gor'kov, L.P.
April, 20 (2007) - Spin and charge excitations in the cuprates stripe phase
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitelbaum, G.
Euro-Asian Symposium Magnetism on a Nanoscale (EASTMAG 2007) Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia August 23-25 (2007) - The impact of externally doped and thermally activated holes on the pseudogap crossover and phase separation in high-Tc cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitelbaum,G.
Int. Conf. on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES07) University of Houston & Rice University, Houston, TX May 13-18 (2007) - The two-component physics in cuprates in the real space and in the momentum representation
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitelbaum, G.B.
LEHTSC 2007 AIST, Tsukuba, Japan October 31-November 3 (2007) - Two component physics of cuprates: real space vs momentum representation
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitelbaum, G.
6th Workshop on Orbital Physics and Novel Phenomena in Transition Metal Oxides Max-Planck-Institute fur Festkoefperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany October 10-11 (2007)
2006
- Externally doped and thermally activated holes in LSCO and the pseudogap crossover
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
5th Int.Conf. of the STRIPES series: STRIPE2006 Rome, Italy December 17-22 (2006) - Gapless superconductivity in CeCoIn5
Gor'kov, L.P.
Int. Conf. on Quantum Complexities in Condensed Matter Cambridge, UK July 4-7 (2006) - Pseudogap region in (LaSr)2CuO4 as a regime of dynamically coexistent phases
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Centre for Nanotechnology University Colledge London, UK July 13 (2006)
2005
- Electronic inhomogeneities as manifestation of two-component physics in cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
IICAM Workshop: NMR/EPR of correleted electron superconductors Dresden, Germany October 15-21 (2005) - On frustrated phase separation in high-Tc cuprates (analysis of experimental data)
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Physik-Kolloquium der Freien Universitet Berlin Berlin, Germany May 6 (2005) - Phase diagram of (TMTSF)2PF6 revisited
Gor'kov, L.P.and Grigoriev, P.D.
University of Paris-Sud Orsay, France April 28 (2005) - Phase separation vs. pseudogap crossover regime in cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Workshop on Nanoscale Fluctuations in Magnetic and Superconducting Systems Max-Planck Institute for Complex System, Dresden, Germany May 10-14 (2005)
2004
- Nuclear spin relaxation and incommensurate magnetism in doped cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
NATO Advance Workshop, University of Miami Miami, FL January 11-16 (2004) - Pseudogap as a regime of phase separation and stripes formation according to the NMR-data for cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Stripes04, 4th Int. Conf. on Nanoscale Heterogeneity & Quantum Phenomena in Complex Matter Rome, Italy September 26-October 2 (2004) - Pseudogap regime and phase separation in HTSC
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Fundamental issues of HTSC Zvenigorod-Moscow, Russia October 18-22 (2004) - Pseudogap regime in high-Tc cuprates as a manifestation of a frustrated phase separation (NMR view)
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES04) Karlsruhe, Germany July 26-30 (2004) - Surface and Superconductivity
Gor'kov, L.P.
12th Int. Conf. on Recent Progress In Many-Body Theory Santa Fe, NM August 23-27 (2004) - The pseudogap regime and dynamical phase separation in high-Tc cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
Nanoscale Properties of Condensed Matter Probed by Resonance Conf. Kazan, Russia August 16-20 (2004)
2003
- dHvA oscillations in a superconductor near its critical field-old puzzles
Gor'kov, L.P.
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University England March 13 (2003) - Magnetoresistance effects in array of ferromagnetic domain walls in nanowires
Gor'kov, L.P.; Dzero, M. and Zvezdin, A.K.
Theoretical trends in low-dimensional magnetism-LDM03 July 25 (2003) - Pseudogap behavior of nuclear spin relaxation in high Tc suprconductors in terms of phase separation
Gor'kov, L.P. and Teitel'baum, G.B.
ICAM Conference at UCSD San Diego, CA December 12 (2003)
2002
- Novel Magnetic Systems
Gor'kov, L. P.
DARPA sponsored Spins/Spintronics PI Review Delray Beach, FL September 30-October 04 (2002) - Quantum Oscillations in Superconducting State
Gor'kov, L.P.
NATO Advanced Research Workshop Les Houches, France February 25-March 02 (2002)
2001
- Entropy First Order Transition in YbInCu4
Gor'kov, L.P.
International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems, SCES 2001 Ann Arbor, MI August 6-10 (2001) - Giant Magneto-Oscillations in the Josephson Antiferromagnetic Weak Link
Gor'kov, L.P.
DARPA Spins/Spintronics Workshop Long Beach, CA September 3-7 (2001) - Mixed Singlet-Triplet Pairing for 2D Superconductivity at a Surface
Gor'kov, L.P.
French Academy of Science Paris France December 4 (2001)
2000
- Exotic Superconductivity as a Peculiar Jahn-Teller Effect
Gor'kov, L.P.
The Fifteenth Int. Symposium on the Jahn-Teller Effect and NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Colossal Magnetoresistance and Vibronic Interactions Boston, MA August 16-22 (2000) - Inherent inhomogeneity in two-component model for cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P.
The 3rd Int. Conference Stripes and high Tc superconductivity/2000 Rome, Italy September 25-30 (2000) - Two Component Model for High Tc Superconductors
Gor'kov, L.P.
Int. Conference on Major Trends in Superconductivity in the New Millennium Klosters, Switzerland March 31 - April 2 (2000) - Two component models and phase segregation in cuprates
Gor'kov, L.P.
The XVI Conference on Solid State Physics Nafpolio, Greece September 17-20 (2000)