Arkady Alexandrovich Popov

Permanent address:

Department of Mathematics, Tatar State Humanitarian Teacher’s Training University,

Tatarstan street 2, Kazan, 420021 Russia e-mail: apopov@kzn.ru

EDUCATION:

1989 Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Kazan State University,

Thesis: ”Statistical description of ultrarelativistic gas in locally fluctuating gravitational fields”

1981 M.S. in Physics, Kazan State University (Russia)

EMPLOYMENT :

1992 – present Senior lecturer of Mathematics, Kazan State Pedagogical University, Kazan

1987 – 1992 Assistant Professor, Kazan State Pedagogical University, Kazan

1984 – 1987 Post-graduate student, Astrophysical Institute, Kazakhstan Academy

of Sciences, Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)

1981 – 1984 Senior Staff Researcher, Kazan State University, Kazan

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Russian Gravitational Society (RGS)

MAIN FIELD OF INTERESTS:

Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and spacetimes with nontrivial topological structure

AWARDED PROJECTS:

1.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 96-02-17066, 1996-1997) “Investigation of a behavior of quantized fields near the chronology horizon”

2.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 97-02-27757, 1997-1997) “Participation in the fifteenth meeting of the international society on general relativity and gravitation”

3.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 99-02-17941, 1999-2001) “Problem of a construction of quantum field theory in spacetimes with closed timelike curves”

4.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 02-02-17177, 2002-2004) “Problems of quantum field theory in spacetimes with nontrivial topological structure”

5.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 05-02-17344, 2005-2007) “Classical and quantum aspects of wormhole physics in the accelerating Universe”

6.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 05-02-39023, 2005-2007) “Dark energy, accelerating Universe, and wormholes: Classical and quantum aspects”

7.     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 06-01-00765, 2006-2008) “Group invariant methods in the gravity theory and quantum field theory in curved worlds and worlds with non-trivial topological structure”

SELECTED ARTICLES:

1.     Yu. G. Ignat’ev and A. A. Popov, Kinetic equations for ultrarelativistic particles in a Robertson-Walker universe and isotropization of relict radiation by gravitational interactions, Astrophysics and Space Science 163, 153 (1990).

2.     Yu. G. Ignat’ev and A. A. Popov, Spherically symmetric perturbation of an ultrarelativistic fluid in a homogeneous and isotropic universe, Phys. Lett. A 220, 22 (1996).

3.     A. Popov and S. Sushkov, Selfconsistent Semiclassical Solution with a Wormhole in the Theory of Gravity, Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions, ed. M. Bordag (Teubner, Leipzig, 1996) p.206.

4.     D. Hochberg, A. Popov and S. V. Sushkov, Self-consistent wormhole solutions of semiclassical gravity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2050 (1997).

5.     A. Popov, Cylindrical self-consistent solutions of semiclassical gravity, Phys. Lett. A 249, 376 (1998).

6.     A. Popov and S. Sushkov, Vacuum polarization of a scalar field in wormhole spacetimes, Phys. Rev. D 63, 044017 (2001).

7.     A. Popov, Stress-energy of a quantized scalar field in static wormhole spacetimes, Phys. Rev. D 64, 104005 (2001).

8.     A. Popov, Analytical approximation of the stress-energy tensor of a quantized scalar field in static spherically symmetric spacetimes, Phys. Rev. D 67, 044021 (2003).

9.     A. Popov, Analytical approximation for <phi²> of a quantized scalar field in ultrastatic asymptotically flat spacetimes, Phys. Rev. D 70, 084047 (2004).

10.       A. Popov, Long throat of a wormhole created from vacuum fluctuations, Class. Quantum Grav. 22, 5223 (2005).

11.       A. A. Popov and O. B. Zaslavskii, Quantum-corrected ultraextremal horizons and the validity of the WKB approximation in the massless limit, Phys. Rev. D 75, 084018 (2007).