Anatoly Shabad
P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow
Biography
Anatoly Shabad is educated from Moscow State University (1956-1962). He acquired his Candidate of Science (1968) and Doctor of Science (1986) degrees in P N Lebedev Phys. Inst., Russian Academy of Sciences. He is affiliated with this institute since 1965, now as Principal Researcher of I E Tamm Dept. of Theor Phys. He served two terms as a Deputy to the Parliament of the Russian Federation, 1990-1996, was a supporter of the Yeltsin-Gaidar reforms. His works are in the fields of quantum mechanics, optics, quantum theory of gauge fields and quantum plasma theory. His main achievements relate to nonlinear effects associated with quantum electrodynamics with strong external fields. Among these are the photon capture by magnetic field of a pulsar, accompanied by formation of a mixed state between the photon and the positronium atom, renormalization of the magnetic and electric dipoles of elementary particles due to the self-interaction of their electromagnetic fields, presence of a magnetic response to an electric source in external fields, especially in the form of a magnetic monopole. Also an upper bound possible value of the magnetic field is found to be supplied by the phenomenon of collapse of positronium in a strong magnetic field.
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