IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/phsmap/v156y1989i1p219-226.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

NMR relaxation mechanisms and line widths in insulators below 1 K

Author

Listed:
  • Gonen, O.
  • Waugh, J.S.

Abstract

Spin-lattice relaxation in insulating diamagnets is extremely slow at millikelvin temperatures, though far less slow than conventional theory would suggest. However spins at the surface of particles immersed in liquid 3He relax efficiently by the Friedman-Richardson mechanism, which is shown to be dipolar in nature and possibly informative about surface structure. Relaxation of interior spins is shown to occur by spin diffusion from the surface. This process can be impeded by a barrier arising from interaction with foreign spins. Resonances in finely divided solids suffer unexpectedly large inhomogeneous broadening, though the natural widths are in accordance with expectations.

Suggested Citation

  • Gonen, O. & Waugh, J.S., 1989. "NMR relaxation mechanisms and line widths in insulators below 1 K," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 156(1), pages 219-226.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:156:y:1989:i:1:p:219-226
    DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90119-2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378437189901192
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/0378-4371(89)90119-2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:156:y:1989:i:1:p:219-226. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physica-a-statistical-mechpplications/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.