The B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine () is a research institute in Kharkiv, Ukraine, that conducts basic research in experimental and theoretical physics, mathematics, as well as in the field of applied physics. It was founded in 1960 by Borys Verkin, Oleksandr Galkin, Borys Eselson and Ihor Dmytrenko. Its first director was Borys Verkin.
Main areas of research are high-temperature superconductivity, weak superconductivity, magneto antiferromagnets, physics of low-dimensional systems, point-contact spectroscopy, quantum crystals, nonlinear phenomena in metals, physics of disordered systems, quantum phenomena in plasticity and others. The institute has published about 250 monographs, textbooks, reference books, more than 12,000 articles and reviews in ranking scientific journals, and has trained more than 850 highly qualified PhD experts. <span class="noviewer"></span>
On May 13, 1960, the presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine issued a decision to establish the Kharkiv Physics and Technical Institute for Low Temperatures on the initiative of several scientists from the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology.
The institute was created by nine laboratories involved in low temperature physics. Four math departments were also established. In 1987 they were organized into the ILTPE Mathematical Division.
In 1991 ILTPE was named after its founder, Borys Verkin.
ILTPE publishes two scientific journals included on a list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications: