Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-08-21
J. Chem. Phys. 108, 2718 (1998)
Physics
Condensed Matter
6 pages in Revtex, 11 Postscript figures. Final version
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.475664
The reversal of the time evolution of the local polarization in an interacting spin system involves a sign change of the effective dipolar Hamiltonian which refocuses the 'spin diffusion' process generating a polarization echo. Here, the attenuation of these echo amplitudes as a function of evolution time is presented for cymantrene and ferrocene polycrystalline samples, involving one and two five spin rings per molecule respectively. We calculate the fraction of polarization which is not refocused because only the secular part of the dipolar Hamiltonian is inverted. The results indicate that, as long as the spin dynamics is restricted to a single ring, the non-inverted part of the Hamiltonian is notable by itself to explain the whole decay of the polarization echoes. A cross over from exponential (cymantrene) to Gaussian (ferrocene) attenuation is experimentally observed. This is attributed to an increase of the relative importance of the spin dynamics, as compared with irreversible interactions, which favors dynamical irreversibility.
Levstein Patricia Rebeca
Pastawski Horacio Miguel
Usaj Gonzalo
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