Book Review: Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. By Malcolm H. Levitt

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Bodenhausen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 74 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4235
• DOI: 10.1002/1439-7641(20020816)3:8<720::aid-cphc1111720>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

In its present form, this book is not useful as a reference book for readers who are or may be interested in the physics of amorphous metals. This is not an issue of pedagogy, it is simply because the materials presented are out of date. There are other theorists that have done more insightful work on disorder effects on superconductivity, but their work is omitted in this book. Examples are the papers by Theodore R. Kirkpatrick and Dietrich Belitz in the 1990s. Also, more recent work on disordered Hubbard models by a number authors are also missing. Then, there is also the issue of clarity and sense of direction. The entire book is packed with strings of equations (gap equation after gap equation), which, at the end, leave the reader with a final set of equations just as complex as the derivations. These end equations have failed to reveal any physical insight into the issues which this book may have intended to address.