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We study the role of dipolar interactions in the standard protocol used to achieve dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). In the so-called spin-temperature regime, where the interactions establish an effective thermodynamic behavior in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-13 Andrea De Luca , Inés Rodríguez Arias , Markus Müller , Alberto Rosso

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is an important method to enhance the limited sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Using the existing mechanisms such as Overhauser DNP (ODNP) is still difficult to achieve significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Maria Grazia Concilio , Yiwen Wang , Linjun Wang , Xueqian Kong

We report achieving enhanced nuclear magnetization in a magnetic resonance force microscope experiment at 0.6 tesla and 4.2 kelvin using the dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) effect. In our experiments a microwire coplanar waveguide…

Dynamic nuclear polarization is widely used to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance. It is presently the method of choice for enhancing the sensitivity of high-field solid state NMR experiments performed under cryogenic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Maria Grazia Concilio , Ilya Kuprov , Lucio Frydman

Dynamic nuclear polarization transfers spin polarization from electrons to nuclei. We have achieved this by a new method, simultaneously exciting transitions of electronic and nuclear spins. The efficiency of this technique improves with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-11 G. W. Morley , K. Porfyrakis , A. Ardavan , J. van Tol

Dynamic nuclear polarization experiments use microwave irradiation to transfer the larger electron polarization to nuclear spins of interest, and thus enhance the NMR transitions above thermal equilibrium. How the polarization transfer from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Gian-Marco Camenisch , Nino Wili , Gunnar Jeschke , Matthias Ernst

Coupled electron-nuclear spins represent a promising quantum system, where the optically induced electron spin polarization can be dynamically transferred to nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Most experiments on dynamic nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 A. N. Anisimov , A. V. Poshakinskiy , G. V. Astakhov

The control of nuclear spins in quantum dots is essential to explore their many-body dynamics and exploit their prospects for quantum information processing. We present a unique combination of dynamic nuclear spin polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Florian Forster , Max Mühlbacher , Dieter Schuh , Werner Wegscheider , Geza Giedke , Stefan Ludwig

Dynamic nuclear spin polarization (DNP) mediated by paramagnetic point defects in semiconductors is a key resource for both initializing nuclear quantum memories and producing nuclear hyperpolarization. DNP is therefore an important process…

The hyperpolarization of nuclear spins can enable powerful imaging and sensing techniques provided the hyperpolarization is sufficiently long-lived. Recent experiments on nanodiamond $^{13}$C nuclear spins demonstrate that relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Torsten Gaebel , Ewa Rej , David J. Reilly , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

We propose a new, more efficient, and potentially cost effective, solid-state nuclear spin hyperpolarization method combining the Cross Effect mechanism and electron spin optical hyperpolarization in rotating solids. We first demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Frederic Mentink-Vigier , Vinayak Rane , Thierry Dubroca , Krishnendu Kundu

In dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) experiments, the compound is driven out-of-equilibrium by microwave (MW) irradiation of the radical electron spins. Their stationary state has been recently probed via electron double resonance (ELDOR)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-28 Filippo Caracciolo , Marta Filibian , Pietro Carretta , Alberto Rosso , Andrea De Luca

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) using the boron vacancy ($\mathrm{V_B^-}$) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has gained increasing attention. Understanding this DNP requires systematically investigating the optically detected magnetic…

Highly sensitive nuclear spin detection is crucial in many scientific areas including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), imaging (MRI) and quantum computing. The tiny thermal nuclear spin polarization represents a major obstacle…

Rapid injection of spin polarization into an ensemble of nuclear spins is a problem of broad interest, spanning dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) to quantum information science. We report on a strategy to boost the spin injection rate by…

Nuclear electric resonance (NER) is based on nuclear magnetic resonance mediated by spatial oscillations of electron spin domains excited by a radio frequency (RF) electric field, and it allows us to investigate the spatial distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 S. Watanabe , G. Igarashi , N. Kumada , Y. Hirayama

We have explored the manifold physical scenario emerging from a model of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) via thermal mixing under the hypothesis of highly effective electron-electron interaction. When the electron and nuclear reservoirs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Sonia Colombo Serra , Alberto Rosso , Fabio Tedoldi

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is a powerful suite of techniques that deliver multifold signal enhancements in NMR and MRI. The generated athermal spin states can also be exploited for quantum sensing and as probes for many-body…

We reveal an interplay between temperature and radical concentration necessary to establish thermal mixing (TM) as an efficient dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) mechanism. We conducted DNP experiments by hyperpolarizing widely used DNP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Ludovica M. Epasto , Thibaud Maimbourg , Alberto Rosso , Dennis Kurzbach

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a powerful technique for the characterization of the atomic-level structure and dynamics of materials. Nevertheless, the use of this technique is often limited by its lack of sensitivity, which can prevent…