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Atomic Scale Structural Studies of Macromolecular Assemblies by Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Published on: September 17, 2017
A relativistic relationship between parity-violating nuclear spin-rotation tensors and parity-violating NMR shielding
I Agustín Aucar1, Mariano T Colombo Jofré1, Gustavo A Aucar1
1Instituto de Modelado e Innovación Tecnológica, CONICET, and Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UNNE, Avenida Libertad 5460, W3404AAS Corrientes, Argentina.
Abstract:
The nuclear-spin-dependent parity-violation contributions to the nuclear magnetic resonance shielding and nuclear spin-rotation tensors (σPV and MPV, respectively) are known to be formally related to one another in the non-relativistic regime. In this work, the polarization propagator formalism and the linear response within the elimination of small components model are used to show a new and more general relationship between them, which is valid within the relativistic framework. The full set of the zeroth- and first-order relativistic contributions to σPV and MPV are also given here for the first time, and these results are compared with previous findings. According to four-component relativistic calculations, the electronic spin-orbit effects are the most significant ones for the isotropic values of σPV and MPV in the H2X2 series of molecules (with X = O, S, Se, Te, and Po). When only scalar relativistic effects are taken into account, the non-relativistic relationship between σPV and MPV does hold. However, when the spin-orbit effects are taken into consideration, this old non-relativistic relationship breaks down, and therefore, the new one must be considered.
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