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Nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry represents a powerful tool for extracting dynamic information. Yet, obtaining links to molecular motion is challenging for many ions that relax through the quadrupolar mechanism, which is mediated by…
The study of how spin interacts with lattice vibrations and relaxes to equilibrium provides unique insights on its chemical environment and the relation between electronic structure and molecular composition. Despite its importance for…
This study examines the spin-lattice relaxation rate of Mn$^{2+}$ ions in strained diluted magnetic semiconductor (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum wells using the optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) technique. By adjusting the magnesium…
A general two-dimensional spin model with U$(N)$ invariance, interpolating between $\CPN$ and ${\rm O}(2N)$ models, is studied in detail in order to illustrate both the general features of the $1/N$ expansion on the lattice and the specific…
Heterometallic molecular chromium wheels are fascinating new magnetic materials. We reexamine the available experimental susceptibility data on MCr7 wheels in terms of a simple isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian for M=Fe, Ni, Cu, and Zn and…
We report a Monte Carlo investigation of the effect of a lattice of antidots on spin relaxation in twodimensional electron systems. The spin relaxation time is calculated as a function of geometrical parameters describing the antidot…
Relaxation of conduction electron spins in a semiconductor owing to the hyperfine interaction with spin-1/2 nuclei, in zero applied magnetic field, is investigated. We calculate the electron spin relaxation time scales, in order to evaluate…
The simulation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments is a notoriously difficult task, if many spins participate in the dynamics. The recently established dynamic mean-field theory for high-temperature spin systems (spinDMFT)…
We report measurements of 19F nuclear spin-lattice relaxation 1/T1 as a function of temperature and external magnetic field in LiY0.998Ho0.002F4 single crystal, a single-ion magnet exhibiting interesting quantum effects. The 19F 1/T1 is…
A new approach is presented that treats NMR spin-spin relaxation as kinetics in spin phase space. The approach is applied to free induction decay (FID) in solids containing equivalent nuclear spins 1/2. The description obtained does not…
We investigate the fundamental mechanism of spin phonon coupling in the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy center $(\mathrm{NV}^-)$ in diamond in order to calculate the spin lattice relaxation time $T_1$ and its temperature dependence from…
We demonstrate that quantum-critical spin dynamics can be probed in high magnetic fields using muon-spin relaxation ($\mu^{+}$SR). Our model system is the strong-leg spin ladder bis(2,3-dimethylpyridinium) tetrabromocuprate (DIMPY). In the…
We show that quantum rotational wavepacket dynamics in molecules can be described by a new system-environment model, which consists of a rotational subsystem coupled to a magnetically tunable spin bath formed by the nuclear spins within the…
We present measurements on nuclear spin relaxation probed by a single quantum dot in a high-mobility electron gas. Current passing through the dot leads to a spin transfer from the electronic to the nuclear spin system. Applying electron…
We calculate the rate of transverse relaxation arising from vortex motion in the mixed state of YBa_2Cu_3O_7 with the static field applied along the c axis. The vortex dynamics are described by an overdamped Langevin equation with a…
We study the relaxation dynamics of the spin polarization of baryons (nucleon and $\Lambda$-baryon), in a thermal pion gas as a simple model of the hadronic phase of the QCD plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. For this…
The Dirac nodal line (DNL) is a novel form of massless Dirac fermions that reside along lines in momentum space. Here, we verify genuine DNLs in the molecular material, [Ni(dmdt)$_2$], with the combined NMR experiments and numerical…
We present the Markovian quantum master equation describing rotational decoherence, friction, diffusion, and thermalization of planar, linear, and asymmetric rotors in contact with a thermal environment. It describes how an arbitrary…
TmVO$_4$ exhibits ferroquadrupolar order below 2.15 K with a well-isolated non-Kramers ground state doublet, and is a model system to understand Ising nematic order. We present $^{51}$V nuclear magnetic resonance data as a function of field…
We consider relaxation of a rigid spin cluster in an elastic medium in the presence of the magnetic field. Universal simple expression for spin-phonon matrix elements due to local rotations of the lattice is derived. The equivalence of the…