Evidence of several dipolar quasi-invariants in Liquid Crystals

In a closed quantum system of N coupled spins with magnetic quantum number I, there are about (2I + 1)^N constants of motion. However, the possibility of observing such quasi-invariant (QI) states in solid-like spin systems in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is not a strictly exact prediction. The...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2013-05
Main Authors: Bonin, C J, González, C E, Segnorile, H H, Zamar, R C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coherence
Invariants
Liquid crystals
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Quantum phenomena
Quantum theory
Time domain analysis
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Summary:In a closed quantum system of N coupled spins with magnetic quantum number I, there are about (2I + 1)^N constants of motion. However, the possibility of observing such quasi-invariant (QI) states in solid-like spin systems in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is not a strictly exact prediction. The aim of this work is to provide experimental evidence of several QI, in the proton NMR of small spin clusters, besides those already known Zeeman, and dipolar orders (strong and weak). We explore the spin states prepared with the Jeener-Broekaert pulse sequence by analyzing the time-domain signals yielded by this sequence as a function of the preparation times, in a variety of dipolar networks. We observe that the signals can be explained with two dipolar QIs only within a range of short preparation times. At longer times the time-domain signals have an echo-like behaviour. We study their multiple quantum coherence content on a basis orthogonal to the z-basis and see that such states involve a significant number of correlated spins. Then we show that the whole preparation time-scale can only be reconstructed by assuming the occurrence of multiple QI which we isolate experimentally.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1305.1244