Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE
Volume 310, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.106645
Keywords
Relaxation; Spin isomers; Master equation; Lindblad; Superoperator
Funding
- European Research Council [786707-FunMagResBeacons]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC-UK) [EP/P009980/1]
- EPSRC [EP/P009980/1, 1842822, EP/P030491/1, EP/K00509X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The quantum dynamics of spin systems is often treated by a differential equation known as the master equation, which describes the trajectories of spin observables such as magnetization components, spin state populations, and coherences between spin states. The master equation describes how a perturbed spin system returns to a state of thermal equilibrium with a finite-temperature environment. The conventional master equation, which has the form of an inhomogeneous differential equation, applies to cases where the spin system remains close to thermal equilibrium, which is well satisfied for a wide variety of magnetic resonance experiments conducted on thermally polarized spin systems at ordinary temperatures. However, the conventional inhomogeneous master equation may fail in the case of hyperpolarized spin systems, when the spin state populations deviate strongly from thermal equilibrium, and in general where there is a high degree of nuclear spin order. We highlight a simple case in which the inhomogeneous master equation clearly fails, and propose an alternative master equation based on Lindblad superoperators which avoids most of the deficiencies of previous proposals. We discuss the strengths and limitations of the various formulations of the master equation, in the context of spin systems which are far from thermal equilibrium. The method is applied to several problems in nuclear magnetic resonance and to spin-isomer conversion. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.
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