Valerii Vinokour

Research:
research interests

* Mesoscopic physics; mesoscopic superconductivity and magnetism; hybrid structures
* Quantum phase transitions; superconductor-insulator and metal-insulator transitions
* Quantum electron kinetics, electronic transport in low-dimensional systems
* Dynamics of disordered media and glasses; nonequilibrium stochastic dynamics
* Vortex physics: pinning, dynamics, and related phenomena
* Physics of fractures and fatigue, crack propagation, dislocation dynamics
* Soft condensed matter, physics of granular materials