Accessing long-lived nuclear singlet states between chemically equivalent spins without breaking symmetry

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 831-837

  Feng, Yesu ^a   Davis, Ryan M ^a,b   Warren, Warren S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION;

BULK MAGNETIZATION; FIELD STRENGTHS; HYPERPOLARIZED; NUCLEAR SPIN STATE; PULSE SEQUENCE; REVERSIBLE CHEMICAL REACTIONS; SINGLET STATE; SPIN SYSTEMS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84868688306     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2425     Document Type: Article

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