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We consider the problem of determining the spectrum of an electronic spin via polarization transfer to coupled nuclear spins and their subsequent readout. This suggests applications for employing dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Moniish Elanchezhian , Arjun Pillai , Teemu Virtanen , Ashok Ajoy

The integration on a single chip of the sensitivity-relevant electronics of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrometers is a promising approach to improve the limit of detection, especially for samples…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-09 Nergiz Sahin Solmaz , Marco Grisi , Alessandro Valentino Matheoud , Gabriele Gualco , Giovanni Boero

We studied spatial distribution of dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in a Hall-bar device in a breakdown regime of the quantum Hall effect (QHE). We detected nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals from the polarized nuclear spins by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 Minoru Kawamura , Kimitoshi Kono , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Shingo Katsumoto , Tomoki Machida

Magnetic resonance imaging in ultra-low fields is often limited by mediocre signal-to-noise ratio hindering a higher resolution. Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarisation (O-DNP) using nitroxide radicals has been an efficient solution for…

We present a quantum mechanical theory of optically induced dynamic nuclear polarization applicable to quantum dots and other interacting spin systems. The exact steady state of the optically driven coupled electron-nuclear system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Thomas Nutz , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

$^1$H nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) have been studied in amorphous samples of trehalose sugar doped with TEMPO radicals by means of mechanical milling, in the 1.6 K $\div$ 4.2 K temperature range.…

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

In this work we investigated the time behavior of the polarization of bulk 13C nuclei in diamond above the thermal equilibrium. This nonthermal nuclear hyperpolarization is achieved by cross relaxation between two nitrogen related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Ralf Wunderlich , Jonas Kohlrautz , Bernd Abel , Jürgen Haase , Jan Meijer

We report hyperpolarization of the electronic spins associated with substitutional nitrogen defects in bulk diamond crystal. Hyperpolarization is achieved by optical pumping of nitrogen vacancy centers followed by rapid cross relaxation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 M. Loretz , H. Takahashi , T. F. Segawa , J. M. Boss , C. L. Degen

Dynamic nuclear polarization enables the hyperpolarization of nuclear spins beyond the thermal-equilibrium Boltzmann distribution. However, it is often unclear why the experimentally measured hyperpolarization is below the theoretical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Gevin von Witte , Aaron Himmler , Sebastian Kozerke , Matthias Ernst

We study the polarisation dependence of the homogeneously broadened nuclear spin resonance in a crystal. We employ a combinatorial method to restrict the nuclear states to a fixed polarisation and show that the centre of the resonance is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Tsyplyatyev , D. M. Whittaker

We report the detection and polarization of nuclear spins in diamond at room temperature by using a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center. We use Hartmann-Hahn double resonance to coherently enhance the signal from a single nuclear spin while…

We report record high Si-29 spin polarization obtained using dynamic nuclear polarization in microcrystalline silicon powder. Unpaired electrons in this silicon powder are due to dangling bonds in the amorphous region of this intrinsically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. E. Dementyev , D. G. Cory , C. Ramanathan

In III-V semiconductor nano-structures the electron and nuclear spin dynamics are strongly coupled. Both spin systems can be controlled optically. The nuclear spin dynamics is widely studied, but little is known about the initialization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 M. Manca , G. Wang , T. Kuroda , S. Shree , A. Balocchi , P. Renucci , X. Marie , M. V. Durnev , M. M. Glazov , K. Sakoda , T. Mano , T. Amand , B. Urbaszek

We study repeated (noncontinuous) measurements on the electron spin in a quantum dot and find that the measurement technique may lead to a different met$ or mechanism to realize nuclear spin polarization. While it may be used in any case,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-28 Lian-Ao Wu

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Alexander A. Wood , Russell M. Goldblatt , Robert E. Scholten , Andy M. Martin

We experimentally investigate the protection of electron spin coherence of nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond by dynamical nuclear polarization. The electron spin decoherence of an NV center is caused by the magnetic ield fluctuation…

We consider the dynamic nuclear spin polarization (DNP) using two electrons in a double quantum dot in presence of external magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction, in various schemes of periodically repeated sweeps through the S-T+…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Izhar Neder , Mark S. Rudner , Bertrand I. Halperin

Quantum sensors have attracted broad interest in the quest towards sub-micronscale NMR spectroscopy. Such sensors predominantly operate at low magnetic fields. Instead, however, for high resolution spectroscopy, the high-field regime is…

We introduce a novel NMR approach that extends the capabilities of indirect dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) under magic-angle spinning to probe the local environment of half-integer spin quadrupolar nuclei. Compared to…