Spin noise at an arbitrary spin temperature

Details Spin noise at an arbitrary spin temperature Spin noise at an arbitrary spin temperature

2008-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/0804.3585v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

3 pages, 1 figure

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An ensemble of spins oriented along the $z$ direction exhibits nonzero fluctuation in the transverse ($x$- and $y$-) components of the spin angular momentum in accordance with the uncertainty principle. When the spins obey a spin temperature distribution, the mean square fluctuation in $S_{x}$ can be calculated by ensemble average of the expectation value of $S_{x}^{2}$ with respect to an equilibrium density matrix $\rho =e^{\beta S_{z}}/Z$. The fluctuation can also be calculated from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem as has been done in literature in the context of NMR spin noise. For spin 1/2 particles in the high temperature limit, appropriate for many NMR experiments, the two methods are known to produce the same, temperature-independent spin noise. We show that inclusion of the zero-point fluctuation term in the original Nyquist relation extends this correspondence to an arbitrary spin temperature for any spin $S$. This indicates that the uncertainty principle-limited spin projection noise can be viewed as a result of the zero-point fluctuation in the thermal bath coupled to the spins.

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