The base of the Department of Physics of Superconductivity and Quantum Materials (Ginzburg Center) The MIPT LPR is the Center for High-Temperature Superconductivity and Quantum Materials (V.L. Ginzburg Center) of the Lebedev Physical Institute (https://lebedev.ru). The department’s page on the MIPT website: https://mipt.ru/education/basic-departments/ginzburg-center.

LPI is one of the largest scientific research centers in Russia. His research areas cover almost all major areas of physics. The history of the Physics Institute is marked by outstanding scientific discoveries such as the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, the principle of autophasing, the scientific foundations of controlled thermonuclear fusion and the creation of thermonuclear weapons, the creation of quantum generators (masers and lasers) and the creation of the Ginzburg-Landau phenomenological theory of superconductivity. The contribution of the LPI staff to the development of science is recognized worldwide and has been awarded prestigious international and domestic awards. Of the eleven Russian Nobel laureates, seven worked at the LPI.

The Center for High-Temperature Superconductivity and Quantum Materials (CVSCM) was established on the initiative of Nobel Laureate Academician Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg. The building itself and its engineering infrastructure are specially designed and built for scientific research using modern and often unique scientific and technological equipment.

Head of the Department — Vladimir Moiseevich Pudalov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The deputy head of the department is Leonid Aleksadrovich Morgun.

The staff of the Center – teachers and scientific supervisors of students have close scientific contacts with many leading universities and research centers in Europe, the USA, Japan, China, including: Rutgers University (USA), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Aims Laboratory Iowa State University (USA), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (Dresden, Germany), Lancaster University (UK), Diamond Light Source, Didcot (UK), etc. This makes it possible to send our students and postgraduates for internships, to conduct joint research and participate in seminars at the best foreign and international research and technology centers. Actively working students and postgraduates participate in Russian and international conferences, presenting reports on the results of their research.