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Dephasing of atomic tunneling by nuclear quadrupoles
Alois Würger1, Andreas Fleischmann, Christian Enss
1Université Bordeaux 1, CPMOH, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France.
Physical Review Letters
|December 18, 2002
Abstract:
Recent experiments revealed a most surprising magnetic-field dependence of coherent echoes in amorphous solids. We show that a novel dephasing mechanism involving nuclear quadrupole moments is the origin of the observed phenomena.