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Magnetization Recovery in a System described by more
than one Temperature
In the case mentioned above we considered only Zeeman interaction and therefore
one single line in the spectrum. In this case the dipole-dipole interaction can
establish a single spin temperature.
In the case of a non-vanishing quadrupole splitting -- as we have it
in the Hexaborides -- the spin-spin interaction does no more
establish a fast thermal equilibrium between the different states. This
causes the magnetization recovery to be no more describable by a
single exponential with a characteristic time scale T1. In this
section we will give an outline of the derivation of an expression
for the magnetization recovery following the arguments of [#!rhodes!#].
A detailed calculation of the results we are going to quote here
is given in [#!benno!#].
Let us start with a time-independent Hamiltonian in the
eigenstate representation consisting of the
Zeeman and the quadrupole interaction:
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(3.43) |
With the further assumption that
the off-diagonal
matrix elements of
vanish long before the spin system
relaxes with the lattice and we can again write:
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(3.44) |
with
representing the spin temperature of the state n
and
.
The time-dependent perturbation we need to obtain relaxation is
of the form:
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(3.45) |
With the same series expansion we introduced in the last section
and the substitution
we obtain
an expression similar to equation ( ):
![\begin{displaymath}\frac{d \alpha_m}{dt} = - \frac{1}{\hbar^2} \sum_n \alpha_n
...
...athcal H}_1(0)]
[\widetilde{\mathcal H}_1(-\tau),P_n] d\tau .
\end{displaymath}](img168.gif) |
(3.46) |
The evaluation of this expression is straight forward but a bit
lengthy. It has been done for a general case in [#!kind!#] and
for our case I=3/2 in [#!benno!#]. Here we only quote the result:
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(3.47) |
with
and W a common constant of the transition probabilities. The
constants cn are given by the initial conditions, which are
displayed by the deviation of the situation after the irradiation
from the situatuation in equlibrium with the lattice
.
We are going to quote the results
due to three different initial conditions.
If we assume the comb irradiation to be short enough that it
does only affect the central transition we are speaking of the
so called fast irradiation. The initial conditions then are
where
denotes the deviations of the m'th level
from equilibrium. In this case the magnetization recovery is
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(3.52) |
If we assume the comb irradiation to be long enough that the levels
we did not irradiate come to thermal equlibrium with the transition
we did irradiate, we are speaking of the so called slow irradiation.
The magnetization recovery then is
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(3.53) |
If we finally assume that the pulses in the comb are short enough
(broad enough in frequency)
that all transitions in the spectrum are irradiated more or less equally, we
obtain again a magnetization recovery which is describable by
a single exponential:
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(3.54) |
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