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Optically polarizable nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond enables the hyperpolarization of $^{13}$C nuclear spins at low magnetic field and room temperature. However, achieving a high level of polarization comparable to conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Vladimir V. Kavtanyuk , Changjae Lee , Keunhong Jeong , Jeong Hyun Shim

Dynamic nuclear polarisation, which transfers the spin polarisation of electrons to nuclei, is routinely applied to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance; it is also critical in spintronics, particularly when spin…

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

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…

Magnetic-field and microwave-frequency modulated DNP experiments have been shown to yield improved enhancements over conventional DNP techniques, and even to shorten polarization build-up times. The resulting increase in signal-to-noise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-23 Mallory L. Guy , Lihuang Zhu , Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

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.,…

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

Hyperpolarisation at room temperature is one of the most important research fields in order to improve liquid, gas or nanoparticle tracer for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in medical applications. In this paper we utilize nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-10 Ralf Wunderlich , Jonas Kohlrautz , Bernd Abel , Jürgen Haase , Jan Meijer

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is an NMR sensitivity enhancement technique that mediates polarization transfer from unpaired electrons to NMR-active nuclei. Despite its success in elucidating important structural information on…

We report a versatile method to efficiently polarize single nuclear spins in diamond, which is based on optical pumping of a single NV color center and mediated by a level-anti crossing in its excited state. A nuclear spin polarization…

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

Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) has revolutionized the field of NMR spectroscopy, expanding its reach and capabilities to investigate diverse materials, biomolecules, and complex dynamic processes. Bringing high-efficiency DNP to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Sahand Tabatabaei , Pritam Priyadarsi , Namanish Singh , Pardis Sahafi , Daniel Tay , Andrew Jordan , Raffi Budakian

We investigate the dynamic nuclear polarization process by frequently injecting polarized electron spins into a quantum dot. Due to the suppression of the direct dipolar and indirect electron-mediated nuclear spin interactions, by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Na Wu , Wenkui Ding , Anqi Shi , Wenxian Zhang

Taking inspiration from NMR spectroscopy, periodic irradiation schemes have recently shown remarkable performance when implemented into pulsed dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) sequences. This has prompted considerable interest in…

Here we propose and analyse in detail protocols that can achieve rapid hyperpolarization of 13C nuclear spins in randomly oriented ensembles of nanodiamonds at room temperature. Our protocols exploit a combination of optical polarization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Q. Chen , I. Schwarz , F. Jelezko , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio

One of solution-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)'s main weaknesses, is its relative insensitivity. J-driven Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (JDNP) was recently proposed for enhancing the sensitivity of solution-state NMR, by bypassing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Maria Grazia Concilio , Lucio Frydman

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond has emerged as a candidate to non-invasively hyperpolarise nuclear spins in molecular systems to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments. Several promising proof of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 A. J. Healey , L. T. Hall , G. A. L. White , T. Teraji , M. -A. Sani , F. Separovic , J. -P. Tetienne , L. C. L. Hollenberg

In pulsed dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), enhancement of the polarization of bulk nuclei requires the repeated application of a microwave pulse sequence. So far, analysis of a one-time transfer of electron spin polarization to a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Shebha Anandhi Jegadeesan , Yujie Zhao , Graham M. Smith , Ilya Kuprov , Guinevere Mathies

We report on a study of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and electron and nuclear spin relaxation of atomic hydrogen and deuterium in solid molecular matrices of H$_{2}$, D$_{2}$, and HD mixtures. The electron and nuclear spin relaxation times…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2017-02-08 S. Sheludiakov , J. Ahokas , J. Järvinen , O. Vainio , L. Lehtonen , S. Vasiliev , D. M. Lee , V. V. Khmelenko

Polarization transfers are crucial building blocks in magnetic resonance experiments, i.e., they can be used to polarize insensitive nuclei and correlate nuclear spins in multidimensional NMR spectroscopy. The polarization can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Zhenfeng Pang , Sheetal Jain , Chen Yang , Xueqian Kong , Kong Ooi Tan