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arXiv:cond-mat/0406502

Coherent Nuclear Radiation

Vyacheslav I. Yukalov, Elizaveta P. Yukalova

Published Jun 22, 2004• 7 citations
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Abstract

The main part of this review is devoted to the comprehensive description of coherent radiation by nuclear spins. The theory of nuclear spin superradiance is developed and the experimental observations of this phenomenon are considered. The intriguing problem of how coherence develops from initially incoherent quantum fluctuations is analysed. All main types of coherent radiation by nuclear spins are discussed, which are: free nuclear induction, collective induction, maser generation, pure superradiance, triggered superradiance, pulsing superradiance, punctuated superradiance, and induced emission. The influence of electron-nuclear hyperfine interactions and the role of magnetic anisotropy are studied. Conditions for realizing spin superradiance by magnetic molecules are investigated. The possibility of nuclear matter lasing, accompanied by pion or dibaryon radiation, is briefly touched.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0406502

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An orderly account is given of the processes of coherent propagation, amplification, and generation of pulses in polyatomic resonant media. The characteristic features of the propagation of solitons in resonant media of finite length are considered. Comparisons are made of the exponential and lethargic amplification of pulses in resonant media. It is shown that an allowance for the reflection of the field from the boundaries of an active medium gives rise to a qualitatively different dependence of the parameters of the pulses on the reflection coefficients under superradiance and lasing conditions, which makes it possible to introduce a criterion to distinguish lasing from superradiance. An analysis is made of the characteristics of collective superradiance, which is a new case of coherent generation of pulses. Experimental and theoretical investigations of rf superradiance emitted by systems of nuclear spins are reviewed.
The basic features of coherent spontaneous emission, including its dependence on the square of the number of participating emitters, are reviewed. Analogies with magnetic resonance phenomena are exploited, and we explain the need to go beyond such analogies in order to treat optical emission. Some recent results in the theory of optical superradiance are discussed. The radiative decay process is treated as a quantum-classical interpolation problem, and explicit solutions are given. In addition to its time dependence, we give the angular distribution of radiated power and the expected intensity fluctuations, and we estimate the maximum number of emitters which can cooperate in a superradiant event. Dicke's “coherence brightening” criterion is discussed from the point of view of the present paper. A “failure” of the criterion is exhibited and explained. Two of the purely quantum aspects of superradiance are isolated and discussed briefly.
ABSTRACT It is shown that the magnetic field local inhomogeneous, caused by the stochastic spin distribution over the volume,effects significantly on the nuclear superradiation process. Keywords: Dicke superradiance, nuclear spin system 1. INTRODUCTION The possibility of the Dicke superradiance' in the nuclear spin system, placed in the magnetic field, was explained byBlombergen and Paund in 1954.2 Experimental researches of this effect related to more later time.3'4 The theoretical explanation of this experiment, based on the solution of the Maxwell - Bloch equations system was proposed (seealso7) in works.5'6 Further development of the nuclear spin superradiance theory is contained in works.8'4 A semi-classical approach,5'6 reproducing main features of the observed effect, contained a number of artificial assumptions. In particular, observation of the single pulses regime with high values of the initial spin polarizations couldn't beexplained with taking in account of Larmor frequency scanning, that took place in the experiment. To obtain thecorrespondence with the experimental data we had to artificially select the transverse relaxation time value.In the present paper we throw out these assumptions and show that the role of additional relaxation mechanismcan play line width, caused by the local magnetic field. Here we are not pretend to give the exact description of thementioned experiment,4 but only point to the sufficiently features of the phenomenon considered.