Hyperpolarized long-lived states in solution NMR: three-spin case study in low field

Recent work has shown that singlet states in two-spin systems can possess lifetimes exceeding the T(1) relaxation time, provided that the system is kept under conditions that minimize the effects of the chemical shift Hamiltonian (for instance under low magnetic field or RF irradiation). Similar observations have been made in hyperpolarized states of multi-spin systems prepared via parahydrogen-induced polarization (PHIP). However, lifetime prolongation mechanisms in multi-spin systems are still under investigation. Here we present experimental observations of a long-lived state in a three-spin system prepared by PHIP and stored at low field. The observed lifetime of the long-lived state is 144s, about twice as long as the longest T(1) measured in the system at high field. The results are analyzed using a recently proposed theory of lifetime prolongation in multi-spin systems in low field. It is shown that quantum mechanical selection rules governing intramolecular dipolar relaxation in low field account for the enhanced lifetime and spectral features of this state.     

Inelastic quasiparticle lifetimes of the Shockley surface state band on Ni(111)

We present a study of the low-energy quasiparticle lifetimes of the Shockley surface state on the Ni(111) surface with scanning tunnelling spectroscopy. By measuring the coherence length of the decaying standing wave pattern at straight step edges electron and hole lifetimes have been determined. The values of the lifetime measured on this ferromagnetic surface show to be considerable smaller than the values obtained from noble metal surfaces. This is explained by differences in the electron density of states at the Fermi energy but has to include substantial spin-flip scattering. Furthermore hole lifetimes appear to be larger than electron lifetimes with the same excitation energy. Although only results for the majority spin component are presented, a spin-dependent selfenergy is expected.     

Selected aspects of the quantum dynamics and electronic structure of atoms in magnetic microtraps

We analyze the quantum properties of atoms in a magnetic quadrupole field. The quantum dynamics of ground state atoms in this field configuration is studied firstly. We formulate the Hamiltonian and perform a symmetry analysis. Due to the particular shape of the quadrupole field in general there exist no stable states. We provide resonance energies, lifetimes and calculate the density of states and investigate under what conditions quasi-bound states occur that possess long lifetimes. An effective scalar Schrödinger equation describing such states is derived. As a next step we explore the influence of a high gradient quadrupole field on the electronic structure of excited atoms. An effective one-body approach together with the fixed nucleus approximation is employed in order to derive the electronic Hamiltonian. We present the energy spectrum and discuss peculiar features such as non-trivial spin densities and magnetic field induced electric dipole moments.     

Quasibound states in the continuum in a two channel quantum wire with an adatom

We report the prediction of quasibound states (resonant states with very long lifetimes) that occur in the eigenvalue continuum of propagating states for certain systems in which the continuum is formed by two overlapping energy bands. We illustrate this effect using a quantum wire system with two channels and an attached adatom. When the energy bands of the two channels overlap, a would-be bound state that lays just below the upper energy band is slightly destabilized by the lower energy band and thereby becomes a resonant state with a very long lifetime (a second such state lays above the lower energy band). Unlike the bound states in continuum predicted by von Neumann and Wigner, these states occur for a wide region of parameter space.     

Lifetimes of Rydberg states of Eu atoms

The radiative lifetimes of the Eu 4f76snp(8PJ or10PJ)Rydberg states with J=5/2 and 11/2 are investigated with a combination of multi-step laser excitation and pulsed electric field ionization,from which their dependence on the effective principal quantum number is observed.The lifetimes of 21 states are reported along with an evaluation of their experimental uncertainty.The influence of blackbody radiation,due to the oven temperature,on the lifetime of the higher-n states is detected.The non-hydrogen behavior of the investigated states is also observed.     

Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnet/10-nm-Thick N-Type GaAs Quantum Well Junctions

Spin dynamics in several different types of ferromagnetic metal(FM)/10-nm-thick n-type GaAs quantum well(QW) junctions is studied by means of time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements. Compared with the MnGa/insitu doped 10-nm-thick n-type GaAs QW junction, the spin lifetime of the MnGa/modulation-doped 10-nm-thick n-type GaAs QW junction is shorter by a factor of 5,consistent with the D'yakonov-Pcrel' spin relaxation mechanism. Meanwhile, compared with the spin lifetime of the MnAs/in-situ doped 10-nm-thick n-type GaAs QW junction, the MnGa/in-situ doped 10-nm-thick n-type GaAs QW junction is of a spin lifetime longer by a factor of 4.2. The later observation is well explained by the Rashba effect in the presence of structure inversion asymmetry, which acts directly on photo-excited eleetron spins. We demonstrate that MnGa-like FM/in-situ doped 10-nm-thick n-type GaAs QW junctions, which possess relatively low interfacial potential barriers, are able to provide long spin lifetimes.     

Model Eliashberg functions for surface states

We present a simplified procedure for the analysis of the phonon-induced lifetimes of surface states. The model includes information about the electron and phonon structure and is thus more reliable than procedures based on phonon Debye models. We apply the model to calculate the lifetime broadening of Cu(1 1 1) and Al(0 0 1) surface states. The obtained Eliashberg functions and lifetimes are in reasonable agreement with previous detailed studies.     

Anticrossing of triplet exciton levels in persistence spectra of GaSe crystal

The effect of spin sublevel anticrossing in the persistence spectra of triplet excitons was investigated. The anticrossing signal shape was found to change substantially during the excited-state lifetime. The anticrossing signal splits into two peaks, with the separation between them increasing with time. It is shown that each of the peaks is caused by the contribution of one of the interacting states to the emission, and their lifetimes are determined.     

Lifetime measurements of metastable states of Au,Bi, Cd,Mg, Pb,and Sr in an acetylene/air flame by laser-enhanced ionization spectrometry

The collisional dominated lifetimes of 9 metastable states of Au, Bi, Cd, Mg. Pb, and Sr in an acetylene/air flame have been measured by the step-wise delayed laser-enhanced ionization spectrometry technique. First, the dependency of the lifetime of the metastable 6p ^{2 3} P ₁ state in Pb upon both flame composition and height in the flame were studied. It was found that the lifetime was significantly shorter, both for lean as well as for rich flames, as compared to a stoichiometric composition. The lifetime was furthermore found to be dependent of the height in the flame with a maximum around 10 mm. The lifetimes were not significantly affected by the electron concentration in the flame. The lifetimes for the other metastable states were determined for one given flame composition ( 0.9 _stoich) and one given height (20 mm) only. The measured lifetimes were found to be between 5 ns and 3.1 s. The results show clearly that the lifetimes of metastable states are significantly shortened in the flame (as compared to natural lifetimes). The results also indicate that the metastable states which are of the same parity as the ground configuration (Au, Bi and Pb) in general have longer (collisional) lifetimes (85 ns to 3.1 s) than those which are forbidden to decay to the ground configuration only by violation of spin conservation (Cd, Mg and Sr) (5–33 ns).     

本征GaAs中电子自旋极化对电子复合动力学的影响研究

采用时间分辨圆偏振光和线偏振光抽运-探测光谱,研究了9.6 K温度下本征GaAs中自旋极化电子与非极化电子的复合动力学及其随光子能量演化.发现自旋极化对电子复合动力学具有显著影响.仅在导带底附近测量时,两种方法测试到的复合寿命一致,而在高过超能量电子态测量时,两种方法测试到的复合寿命不一致.指出时间分辨法拉第光谱中,用于反演求解电子自旋相干寿命的电子复合寿命应该使用圆偏振光抽运-探测获得的复合寿命,而不是线偏振光抽运-探测获得的寿命.理论计算与实验结果吻合较好. 关键词： 圆偏振光抽运-探测光谱 自旋量子拍 自旋极化 GaAs     

Decay of an ultracold fermionic lithium gas near a Feshbach resonance

We studied the magnetic field dependence of the inelastic decay of an ultracold, optically trapped fermionic 6Li gas of different spin compositions. The spin mixture of the two lowest hyperfine states showed two decay resonances at 550 and 680 G, consistent with the predicted Feshbach resonances for elastic s-wave collisions. The observed lifetimes of several hundred ms are much longer than the expected time for Cooper pair formation and the phase transition to superfluidity in the vicinity of the Feshbach resonance.     

Electrical control of spin relaxation in a quantum dot

We demonstrate electrical control of the spin relaxation time T1 between Zeeman-split spin states of a single electron in a lateral quantum dot. We find that relaxation is mediated by the spin-orbit interaction, and by manipulating the orbital states of the dot using gate voltages we vary the relaxation rate W identical withT1(-1) by over an order of magnitude. The dependence of W on orbital confinement agrees with theoretical predictions, and from these data we extract the spin-orbit length. We also measure the dependence of W on the magnetic field and demonstrate that spin-orbit mediated coupling to phonons is the dominant relaxation mechanism down to 1 T, where T1 exceeds 1 s.     

Detection and manipulation of statistical polarization in small spin ensembles

We report the detection of the square root of N statistical polarization in a small ensemble of electron spin centers in SiO2 by magnetic resonance force microscopy. A novel detection technique was employed that captures the statistical polarization and cycles it between states that are either locked or antilocked to the effective field in the rotating frame. Using field gradients as high as 5 G/nm, we achieved a detection sensitivity equivalent to roughly two electron spins, and observed ultralong spin-lock lifetimes, as long as 20 s. Given a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio, this scheme should be extendable to single electron spin detection.     

Radiative lifetimes of Zr III excited levels

We report on radiative lifetimes of 4d5p excited states of Zr III produced in a laser produced plasma. The ions were populated either in the ground state or in metastable states, and the number of ions is strongly dependent on the application of an external magnetic field, which is shown to be very important when using the time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence technique for lifetime measurements in highly charged ions. The experimental lifetime results fall in the region 1–2 ns with statistical uncertainties less than 7%. The experimental values were compared with multi-configuration Hartree-Fock calculations showing an agreement within 12–20%. The experimental values are systematically higher than the theoretical ones.     

Coherent state transfer between an electron and nuclear spin in (15)N@C(60)

Electron spin qubits in molecular systems offer high reproducibility and the ability to self-assemble into larger architectures. However, interactions between neighboring qubits are "always on," and although the electron spin coherence times can be several hundred microseconds, these are still much shorter than typical times for nuclear spins. Here we implement an electron-nuclear hybrid scheme which uses coherent transfer between electron and nuclear spin degrees of freedom in order to both effectively turn on or off interqubit coupling mediated by dipolar interactions and benefit from the long nuclear spin decoherence times (T(2n)). We transfer qubit states between the electron and (15)N nuclear spin in (15)N@C(60) with a two-way process fidelity of 88%, using a series of tuned microwave and radio frequency pulses and measure a nuclear spin coherence lifetime of over 100 ms.     

Chain length dependence of high magnetic field effects on lifetimes of radical ion pairs linked by a methylene chain: interpretation by both spin—lattice and spin—spin relaxations

High magnetic field dependence of lifetimes of methylene-chain-linked radical ion pairs (RIPs) generated by photo-induced electron transfer from zinc(II) porphyrin to viologen has been confirmed in aqueous acetonitrile using a pulse magnet-laser flash photolysis apparatus. In the case of a short methylene chain it was first revealed that the dependence was definitely different from that for a long one, and was characterized by a reversal in the dependence. In addition to a long lifetime independent of the magnetic field, RIP in fields above 7T exhibited short lifetimes that depended on the field. These results were interpreted not only by spin-lattice (longitudinal) relaxation but also by spin-spin (transverse) relaxation in RIPs.     

Positronium Decay in a Circular Polarized Laser Field

We calculate the lifetime of both the o-Ps and the p-Ps positronium annihilation decay Ps→γγ in the strong circular polarized laser field. We take a strategy of the factorization to separate the effects caused by the Coulomb interaction and the strong laser field interaction. It is factorized in the time direction but not in the space direction. Our results show that in the laser with long wavelength and high intensity, the lifetimes of those Ps states are dramatically increased. For CO₂ laser with 10 μm wavelength and 10¹³ W/cm² intensity, lifetime of the spin-single positronium is increased by 10⁸ times. Our result is consistent with those obtained by solving the Schödinger equation. This effect may be useful for the high harmonic generation (HHG) effects provided with the Ps [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993) 774; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 013601].     

171Ta高自旋态能级寿命测量

在中国原子能科学研究院的HI 13串列加速器上通过157Gd(19F,5n)171Ta重离子熔合蒸发反应布居了171Ta的高自旋态,以多普勒移动衰减法的峰形分析法分析了171Tah9/2质子1/2[541]转动带的6条能级的寿命,得到了这6条能级的平均寿命值. The high spin states of~(171)Ta have been populated via heavy ion fusion evaporation reaction~(157)Gd(~(19)F, 5n)~(171)Ta at the HI-13 tandem accelerator in China Institute of Atomic Energy. The lifetimes of the high spin states in~(171)Ta have been measured by using the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method (DSAM). Six levels of its h_(9/2) proton 1/2\ band have been analyzed and their lifetimes have been deduced from the experimental data.     

Dynamic nuclear polarization with single electron spins

We polarize nuclear spins in a GaAs double quantum dot by controlling two-electron spin states near the anticrossing of the singlet (S) and m(S)= +1 triplet (T+) using pulsed gates. An initialized S state is cyclically brought into resonance with the T+ state, where hyperfine fields drive rapid rotations between S and T+, "flipping" an electron spin and "flopping" a nuclear spin. The resulting Overhauser field approaches 80 mT, in agreement with a simple rate-equation model. A self-limiting pulse sequence is developed that allows the steady-state nuclear polarization to be set using a gate voltage.