内容简介

This book describes the elementary concepts of superconductivity and discusses the topics of flux-lattice melting, magnetization including the para-Meissner effect, microwave absorption, a.c. resistivity along with the London penetration depth, the Mosbauer effect, levitation, fractals and nuclear magnetic resonance. There are appendices covering superconducting compounds, the isotope effect, symmetries, the pseudogap, relativistic superconductivity, the Cherenkov effect and soft vortices. Also included is an appendix on the quantum Hall effect. In all of the chapters, the theoretical description is supported by experimental data. Several of the topics discussed here cannot be found in the other books on this subject.

作者简介：
Keshav Shrivastava obtained his BSc at Agra University,MSc at Allahabad University,PhD at the indian institute of Technology(Kanpur)and DSc at Calcutta University.In addition,he is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,India,and of the Institute of Physics,Bristol and London,UK.He is a Professor at the University of Hyderabad in India.Professor Shrivastava has disscovered the energy shift arising from the spin-phonon interaction,flux-quantzed energy states in superconductors and the fractional flux.He has made many important contribution to condensed matter physics.