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NMR Relaxation by Redfield equation in a spin system I=7/2
A Consuelo-Leal1, A G Araujo-Ferreira1, E Lucas-Oliveira1
1Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 369, 13560-970 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract:
The Redfield master equation was solved analytically for a nuclear system with spin I=7/2. Using the irreducible tensor operator basis, the solutions of each density matrix element were computed. The experimental setup consisted of the 133Cs nuclei of the cesium-pentadecafluorooctanoate molecule in a lyotropic liquid crystal sample in the nematic phase at room temperature. Experimental longitudinal and transverse magnetization dynamics of the 133Cs nuclei were monitored, and the theoretical approach was used to generate valuable mathematical expressions with the highest accuracy through numerical procedures. This methodology can be extended to other nuclei with minimal difficulties.
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