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Kotomin, Eugene Aleksej was born on September 20, 1949 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Son of Aleksej Vasilij Kotomin and Maria Altshuller.
(This monograph deals with the effects of reactant spatial...)
This monograph deals with the effects of reactant spatial correlations arising in the course of basic bimolecular reactions describing defect recombination, energy transfer and exciton annihilation in condensed matter. These effects lead to the kinetics considered abnormal from the standard chemical kinetics point of view. Numerous bimolecular reaction regimes and conditions are analysed in detail. Special attention is paid to the development and numerous applications of a novel, many-point density (MPD) formalism, which is based on Kirkwood's superposition approximation used for decoupling three-particle correlation functions. The book demonstrates that incorporation of the reaction-induced spatial correlations of similar reactants (e.g., vacancy-vacancy) leads to the development of an essentially non-Poisson spectrum of reactant density fluctuations. This can completely change the kinetics at longer times since it no longer obeys the law of mass action. The language of the correlation lengths and critical exponents similar to physics of critical phenomena is used instead. A relation between MPD theory and synergistics is discussed. The validity of the theorem giving a critical complexity for the two-step reactions exhibiting self-organization phenomena is questioned. Theoretical results are illustrated by numerous experimental data.
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Kotomin, Eugene Aleksej was born on September 20, 1949 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Son of Aleksej Vasilij Kotomin and Maria Altshuller.
Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, University Latvia, Riga, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, University Latvia, Riga, 1975. Doctor of Science in Physics, University Latvia, Riga, 1988.
Senior scientist University Latvia, Riga, 1971-1985. Senior visiting scientist University Turin (Italy), 1986. Associate professor Physics University Latvia, 1986-1988.
Leading scientist Institute of Solid State Physics, Riga, 1988-1996. Head theoretical laboratory Institute Solid State Physics, since 1996. Professor University Latvia, since 1996.
Invited professor physics University Turin, 1989. Visiting scientist University Bayreuth (Germany), 1990. Senior visiting researcher University Western Ontario, Canada, 1992.
Visiting professor physics Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany, 1999-1902, Aarhus (Denmark) University, 1995, visiting professor German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 1998, German Academic Exchange Service, 2000.
(This monograph deals with the effects of reactant spatial...)
Member American Physical Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Materials Research Society, Association Latvian Scientists.
Married Asia Solomon Gutman, April 17, 1979. Children: Karina, Emil.