= Vitaly Ginzburg
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= Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg
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= Vitaly L. Ginzburg
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= V. L. Ginzburg
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<Vitaly Ginzburg> and <Lev Landau> described <superconductivity> through a spatially varying complex <order parameter> coupled to an electromagnetic <vector potential>. Their <Ginzburg-Landau theory> balances the cost of changing the order parameter with magnetic-field energy and the tendency to form a superconducting state. It predicts characteristic coherence and penetration lengths and supports analysis of surfaces, currents and nonuniform states. The theory is phenomenological: it can organize measurable behavior near a transition without first deriving the microscopic pairing interaction.<Nobel Lecture: On superconductivity and superfluidity (what I have and have not managed to do) as well as on the physical minimum at the beginning of the XXI century by Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg>[discussion of the complex order parameter and superconducting field equations]{ref}
A <physicist> who headed the Lebedev institute’s theoretical physics department from 1971 to 1988.<Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg by Lev P. Pitaevskii>[Independent professional identity]{ref}
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