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The Journal of Chemical Physics

Multiple quantum nuclear magnetic resonance in one-dimensional quantum spin chains

Edward B. Fel’dman, Serge Lacelle

Published Nov 8, 1997• 71 citations

Abstract

Multiple quantum (MQ) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin dynamics are investigated analytically in infinite one-dimensional (1D) chains of spins 1/2. The representation of spin 1/2 operators with fermion field operators allows to calculate exactly the spin density operator, and hence NMR observables, under a variety of different conditions for 1D spin systems. The exact expressions are valid for all times and for a macroscopic number of coupled spins. The calculations for a 1D spin system initially at thermal equilibrium, and evolving under a 2-quantum/2-spin average dipolar Hamiltonian, in the presence of nearest-neighbor dipolar interactions yield MQ NMR spectra with 0- and 2-quantum coherences only. For a nonequilibrium initial condition with transverse magnetization, the analogous spin dynamics calculations produce MQ NMR spectra with all possible coherences of odd orders. Calculations at the level of perturbation theory, which include next-nearest-neighbor dipolar interactions, generate MQ spectra with higher even order coherences for equilibrium initial condition and evolution under a 2-quantum/2-spin propagator. Consideration of multiple spin correlations, 0-quantum coherences, and rf pulse imperfections are also presented. The relevance and implications of these theoretical results for comparison with the recent MQ NMR experiments of Yesinowski et al. on materials with quasi-one-dimensional distributions of spins, and for MQ NMR of solids in general are discussed.

DOI: 10.1063/1.474949

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We investigate analytically and numerically the multiple-quantum (MQ) NMR dynamics in systems of nuclear spins

1∕2

coupled by the dipole-dipole interactions in the case of the dipolar ordered initial state. We suggest two different methods of MQ NMR. One of them is based on the measurement of the dipolar temperature in the quasiequilibrium state which is established after the time of order ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\mathit{loc}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ (${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\mathit{loc}}$ is the dipolar local field) after the MQ NMR experiment. The other method uses an additional resonance ${(\ensuremath{\pi}∕4)}_{y}$ pulse after the preparation period of the standard MQ NMR experiment in solids. Many-spin clusters and correlations are created faster in such experiments than in the usual MQ NMR experiments and can be used for the investigation of many-spin dynamics of nuclear spins in solids.

The

^{19}\text{F}

spins in a crystal of fluorapatite have often been used to experimentally approximate a one-dimensional spin system. Under suitable multipulse control, the nuclear-spin dynamics may be modeled to first approximation by a double-quantum one-dimensional Hamiltonian, which is analytically solvable for nearest-neighbor couplings. Here, we use solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to investigate the multiple quantum coherence dynamics of fluorapatite, with an emphasis on understanding the region of validity for such a simplified picture. Using experimental, numerical, and analytical methods, we explore the effects of long-range intrachain couplings, cross-chain couplings, as well as couplings to a spin environment, all of which tend to damp the oscillations of the multiple quantum coherence signal at sufficiently long times. Our analysis characterizes the extent to which fluorapatite can faithfully simulate a one-dimensional quantum wire.

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