Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE
Volume 189, Issue 2, Pages 241-250Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.09.014
Keywords
NMR; EPR; spin; simulation; polynomial scaling
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We report progress with an old problem in magnetic resonance-that of the exponential scaling of simulation complexity with the number of spins. It is demonstrated below that a polynomially scaling algorithm can be obtained (and accurate simulations performed for over 200 coupled spins) if the dimension of the Liouville state space is reduced by excluding unimportant and unpopulated spin states. We found the class of such states to be surprisingly wide. It actually appears that a majority of states in large spin systems are not essential in magnetic resonance simulations and can safely be dropped from the state space. In restricted state spaces the spin dynamics simulations scale polynomially. In cases of favourable interaction topologies (sparse graphs, e.g. in protein NMR) the asymptotic scaling is linear, opening the way to direct fitting of molecular structures to experimental spectra. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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