Frequency-selective laser optical pumping and spin exchange of cesium with129Xe and131Xe in a high magnetic field

We report the experimental results of frequency-selective laser optical pumping and spin exchange of Cs with¹²⁹Xe and¹³¹Xe in a high magnetic field of 11.74 T. Our results show that hyperpolarized¹²⁹Xe and¹³¹Xe nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals exhibit alternating phases when the laser frequency for pumping the cesium atoms is changed, which is explained on the basis of the high-field optical pumping of Cs. We obtain about 3% polarization of the¹²⁹Xe. The electron-spin polarization of the Cs atoms has been measured to be about 22% with a simple NMR method.     

Hyperfine-interaction studies of surfaces

Applications of hyperfine-interaction techniques, like NMR, PAC and Mößbauer spectroscopy, to well-characterized surfaces are discussed and the present knowledge of surface hyperfine fields is reviewed. Measurements of nuclear spin relaxation permit to extract the local density of electron states at the Fermi level of adsorbed alkali atoms. From the observed electric-field-gradient properties surface probe sites and diffusion processes can be inferred; the experimentally determined magnetic hyperfine fields give access to the electron-spin behaviour at magnetic surfaces.     

Optical pumping nuclear magnetic resonance system rotating in a plane parallel to the quantization axis

A model of an optical pumping nuclear magnetic resonance system rotating in a plane parallel to the quantization axis is presented. Different coordinate frames for nuclear spin polarization vector are introduced, and theoretical calculation is conducted to analyze this model. We demonstrate that when the optical pumping nuclear magnetic resonance system rotates in a plane parallel to the quantization axis, it will maintain a steady state with respect to the quantization axis which is independent of rotational speed and direction.     

基于超精细结构下的激光光泵铯磁力仪的理论研究

激光光泵碱金属磁力仪具有很高的灵敏度,测量范围可以从地球磁场到生物磁场。给出了铯（Cs）光泵磁力仪的理论分析和系统设计以及磁场梯度测量原理,铯原子能级在I—J耦合时形成超精细结构,在外磁场的作用下超精细结构进一步产生塞曼分裂形成塞曼子能级,利用激光泵浦和射频磁场能够使电子在超精细结构中进行能级跃迁,产生光磁双共振的结果,最终通过共振频率就能够达到精确测量外磁场的目的。     

Electron dipole-dipole ESEEM in field-step ELDOR of nitroxide biradicals

The use of a rapid stepping of the magnetic field for investigation of electron dipole-dipole ESEEM in pulsed X-band ELDOR is described. The magnetic field jump, synchronized with a microwave pumping pulse, is positioned between the second and the third pulses of the stimulated echo pulse sequence. This echo is measured as a function of the delay between the first and the second pulses. The data are analyzed for a Fourier transform resulting in a Pake resonance pattern. To remove the electron-nuclear contributions to ESEEM, time traces with pumping were divided by those without. This resulted in complete elimination of electron-nuclear contributions, which is seen from the absence of peaks at nuclear frequencies and the similarity of results for protonated and deuterated solvents. For increasing the electron-electron modulation depth, a scanning of the magnetic field during the microwave pumping is proposed. The interspin distances and their distribution are determined for two long-chained (ca. 2 nm) nitroxide biradicals in glassy toluene and in frozen nematic liquid crystal 4-cyano-4'-pentyl-biphenyl. For the latter solvent, the alignment of the axis connecting two nitroxides in biradicals is quantitatively analyzed.     

Singularity in high-frequency susceptibility of thin magnetic films with uniaxial anisotropy

A sharp peak of magnetic susceptibility has been observed in the ferromagnetic resonance spectra of uniaxial magnetic films placed in a planar field directed orthogonal to the easy magnetization axis, along which a pumping high-frequency magnetic field has been oriented. The peak width is considerably narrower than the line width of the uniform ferromagnetic resonance, and its position in a field equal to the film anisotropy field does not depend on the pumping frequency. The nature of the peak is associated with a drastic increase in the static transverse susceptibility of the film in the vicinity of the anisotropy field. It is shown phenomenologically that the peak can be observed only for quality samples with small angular and amplitude dispersion of the uniaxial anisotropy.     

Quenching spin decoherence in diamond through spin bath polarization

We experimentally demonstrate that the decoherence of a spin by a spin bath can be completely eliminated by fully polarizing the spin bath. We use electron paramagnetic resonance at 240 GHz and 8 T to study the electron-spin coherence time T2 of nitrogen-vacancy centers and nitrogen impurities in diamond from room temperature down to 1.3 K. A sharp increase of T2 is observed below the Zeeman energy (11.5 K). The data are well described by a suppression of the flip-flop induced spin bath fluctuations due to thermal electron-spin polarization. T2 saturates at approximately 250 micros below 2 K, where the polarization of the electron-spin bath exceeds 99%.     

High-frequency 180 GHz PELDOR

For aromatic organic radicals, pulsed electron-electron double resonance (PELDOR) experiments at high magnetic fields offer the possibility to achieve orientation-selective pumping and detection that could allow one not only to determine the distance between paramagnetic species but also their relative orientation with respect to the interconnecting dipolar axis. We present a PELDOR two-frequency setup that was introduced into our homebuilt 180 GHz pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometer and we discuss its technical and experimental features. The capability of 180 GHz PELDOR has been tested using the three-pulse ELDOR sequence on the protein RNR-R2 (ribonucleotide reductase) fromEscherichia coli, which contains two tyrosyl radicals at a distance of 3.3 nm. At 180 GHz, orientation selectivity is observed and the modulation frequency was found in good agreement with theoretical predictions, which take into account the relative orientation of the radicals from X-ray data.     

Laser spectroscopy and optical pumping of alkali atoms in superfluid helium

In this paper, our recent works on the alkali atoms in superfluid helim (HeII) are reported. At first we mentions the laser-sputtering method for implantation, which is simple but is very efficient to produce various kinds of neutral atoms and molecules in HeII. Secondly, we report on the laser spectroscopy of alkali atoms in HeII. Optical excitation and emission spectra are found to be roughly explained by a spherical atomic bubble model, but the spectra corresponding to the D₂ lines indicate the quadrupole oscillation of the bubble shape. Optical pumping by a circularly polarized laser beam is found to produce perfect polarization, for both electron and nuclear spins. Using the rf-optical double resonance techniques, the magnetic and hyperfine resonances are observed. It is discussed also about the phenomena which have observed in the experiments done so far but have not been fully explained.     

Optically pumped polarized H− ion sources for RHIC and HERA colliders

Optically-Pumped Polarized Ion Sources (OPPIS) are based on polarization transfer collisions between hydrogen (or deuterium) ions and an optically-pumped electron spin polarized alkali metal vapor. The results of studies on optical pumping of high density alkali metal vapour and spin exchange and charge-exchange polarization transfer collisions are discussed. The results of high current OPPIS development for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), BNL and HERA, DESY are also presented. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

All-optical manipulation of electron spins in carbon-nanotube quantum dots

We demonstrate theoretically that it is possible to manipulate electron or hole spins all optically in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The scheme that we propose is based on the spin-orbit interaction that was recently measured experimentally; we show that this interaction, together with an external magnetic field, can be used to achieve optical electron-spin state preparation with a fidelity exceeding 99%. Our results also imply that it is possible to implement coherent spin rotation and measurement using laser fields linearly polarized along the nanotube axis, as well as to convert spin qubits into time-bin photonic qubits. We expect that our findings will open up new avenues for exploring spin physics in one-dimensional systems.     

Multiple frequency radiofrequency-optical resonance in a four-level model of rubidium atoms with optical pumping

We consider a four-level model for alkali metal atoms with optical pumping by nonresonant light under conditions when magnetic dipole transitions are induced between energy sublevels of the hyperfine structure in the ground state. We present the dependences of the observed signal as a function of the frequency detuning of the applied rf fields relative to the resonant value, calculated in the density matrix formalism. We note the absence of a light shift in the radiofrequency-optical resonance signal, independent of the amplitude of the rf field and the optical and thermal relaxation rates. We show that when using a modulation technique for phase detection of the signal, its maximum discrimination ability is observed under conditions for simultaneous modulation of the pump light intensity and the frequency of the rf field, which in principle does not occur in the classical two-level model for optically oriented atoms in magnetic resonance. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 326–329, May–June, 2006.     

极化检测型铷原子磁力仪的研究

针对交变弱磁场的检测,研制了一种基于极化-检测双光束结构的激光抽运铷原子磁力仪.为了获得该磁力仪对磁场的响应特性,通过数值仿真分析了信号幅度随极化磁场强度、弛豫时间的变化关系,并进行了实验验证.最后通过选择合适的极化磁场使磁力仪对待测磁场的灵敏度最大.实验结果表明,优化后磁力仪灵敏度为0.2pT/(Hz)~(1/2),响应带宽3.5kHz,可用于弱磁场磁共振、高频异常物理现象等信号的检测.     

Coherent storage of photoexcited triplet states using 29Si nuclear spins in silicon

Pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of the photoexcited, metastable triplet state of the oxygen-vacancy center in silicon reveals that the lifetime of the m(s)=±1 sublevels differs significantly from that of the m(s)=0 state. We exploit this significant difference in decay rates to the ground singlet state to achieve nearly ~100% electron-spin polarization within the triplet. We further demonstrate the transfer of a coherent state of the triplet electron spin to, and from, a hyperfine-coupled, nearest-neighbor (29)Si nuclear spin. We measure the coherence time of the (29)Si nuclear spin employed in this operation and find it to be unaffected by the presence of the triplet electron spin and equal to the bulk value measured by nuclear magnetic resonance.     

法拉第调制技术在微小旋转角检测中的应用

在外磁场中的碱金属原子蒸汽在光泵浦的作用下变成非线性介质,线偏振光经过这种介质时会变成椭圆偏振光,且椭偏光的主轴相对于入射偏振光的偏振面会产生一个微小的旋转。分析了碱金属原子能级结构和在光泵浦下产生的二向色性及其对探测偏振激光的偏振面旋转情况,并介绍了法拉第调制技术对这种旋转的测量方法,得到探测光强与旋转角的关系表达式,可以实现10^-7 rad量级的小角度检测。     

光磁共振实验中扫场及水平场取值关系的探讨

在光磁共振实验中,常常有抽运信号与共振信号同时存在的情况,这严重影响到实验的观察和测量.本文利用扫场及水平场大小对抽运信号的影响,通过理论分析和实验测量得到抽运和共振信号不同时存在时扫场和水平场的取值关系.从而有效避免抽运信号对共振信号的干扰,以及对总磁场方向误判的情况,保证了实验的顺利进行和准确测量.     

光磁共振实验中扫场的作用和影响

讨论了方波和三角波扫场对光抽运信号和磁共振信号的作用和影响,阐明了应如何选择方波和三角波扫场信号的大小和方向,才能得到理想的光抽运信号和磁共振信号的方法．     

Unconventional magnetism in a nitrogen-containing analog of cupric oxide

We have investigated the magnetic properties of CuNCN, the first nitrogen-based analog of cupric oxide CuO. Our muon-spin relaxation, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron-spin resonance studies reveal that classical magnetic ordering is absent down to the lowest temperatures. However, a large enhancement of spin correlations and an unexpected inhomogeneous magnetism have been observed below 80 K. We attribute this to a peculiar fragility of the electronic state against weak perturbations due to geometrical frustration, which selects between competing spin-liquid and more conventional frozen states.     

光泵磁共振实验探究

本文分析了光磁共振实验中,观察到光抽运信号和磁共振信号的条件,并重点对方波和三角波扫场对光抽运信号和磁共振信号的作用和影响进行了讨论,阐明了应如何选择方波和三角波扫场信号的大小和方向,才能得到理想的光抽运信号和磁共振信号。