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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…
Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization is a signature of spin order appearing in many photosynthetic reaction centers. Such polarization, significantly enhanced above thermal equilibrium, is known to result from the nuclear spin…
We present an experimental study of the Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) of \si{} nuclei in silicon crystals of natural abundance doped with As in the temperature range 0.1-1 K and in strong magnetic field of 4.6 T. This ensures very high…
The hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins within target molecules is a critical and complex challenge in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Hyperpolarisation offers enormous gains in signal and…
It is demonstrated that the time evolution of the electron-nuclear polarization transfer process during pulsed dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) can be reversed on a microsecond timescale, leading to the observation of DNP echoes. The DNP…
Electrically detected nuclear magnetic resonance was studied in detail in a two-dimensional electron gas as a function of current bias and temperature. We show that applying a relatively modest dc-current bias, I_dc ~ 0.5 microAmps, can…
Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhances nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals by transferring electron spin polarization to nuclei. As DNP requires microwave magnetic fields B1 strong enough to saturate electron spins, microwave…
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is transforming NMR and MRI by significantly enhancing sensitivity through the transfer of polarization from electron spins to nuclear spins via microwave irradiation. However, the use of monochromatic…
Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhances the intensity of NMR signals by transferring polarization from electron spins to nuclei via microwave irradiation. Pulsed DNP methods offer more control on the spin dynamics than conventional…
The polarisation dynamics of nuclear spins weakly coupled to an NV center is highly sensitive to the parameters of the microwave control and the nuclear Larmor frequency. What is commonly regarded as a challenge, we propose here as a…
Nuclear spins in certain solids couple weakly to their environment, making them attractive candidates for quantum information processing and inertial sensing. When coupled to the spin of an optically-active electron, nuclear spins can be…
We report bulk, room-temperature hyperpolarization of 13C nuclear spins observed via high-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The hyperpolarization is achieved by optical pumping (OP) of nitrogen vacancy defect centers in diamond…
Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation (dDNP) increases the sensitivity of magnetic resonance experiments by $>10^4$-fold, permitting isotopically-labelled molecules to be transiently visible in MRI scans. dDNP requires a source of…
By using highly time-resolved spectroscopy with an alternative {\sigma}+/{\sigma} - laser pulse modulation technique, we are able to measure the fast buildup and decay times of the dynamical nuclear spin polarization (DNSP) at 5 K for a…
A sensitivity increase of two orders of magnitude in proton (1H) and carbon (13C) spins via dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) has been accomplished recently using a compact benchtop DNP polarizer operating at 1 T and 77 K. However the DNP…
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…
The sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) depends strongly on nuclear spin polarisation and, motivated by this observation, dynamical nuclear spin polarisation has recently been applied to enhance MRI protocols (Kurhanewicz, J.,…
Nuclear spins and paramagnetic centers in a solid randomly group to form clusters featuring nearly-degenerate, hybrid states whose dynamics are central to processes involving nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and diffusion. Their…
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)…
Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is capable of boosting signals in nuclear magnetic resonance by orders of magnitude by creating out-of-equilibrium nuclear spin polarization. The diffusion of nuclear spin polarization in the vicinity of…