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Algorithmic cooling of nuclear spins using long-lived singlet order

Algorithmic cooling of nuclear spins using long-lived singlet order
Algorithmic cooling of nuclear spins using long-lived singlet order
Algorithmic cooling methods manipulate an open quantum system in order to lower its temperature below that of the environment. We achieve significant cooling of an ensemble of nuclear spin-pair systems by exploiting the long-lived nuclear singlet state, which is an antisymmetric quantum superposition of the "up" and "down" Zeeman states. The effect is demonstrated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on a molecular system containing a coupled pair of near-equivalent 13C nuclei. The populations of the system are subjected to a repeating sequence of cyclic permutations separated by relaxation intervals. The long-lived nuclear singlet order is pumped well beyond the unitary limit. The pumped singlet order is converted into nuclear magnetization which is enhanced by 21% relative to its thermal equilibrium value.
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Rodin, Bogdan A.
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Sheberstov, Kirill F.
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Ivanov, Konstantin L.
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Levitt, Malcolm H.
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Rodin, Bogdan A., Bengs, Christian, Kiryutin, Alexey S., Sheberstov, Kirill F., Brown, Lynda, Brown, Richard, Yurkovskaya, Alexandra V., Ivanov, Konstantin L. and Levitt, Malcolm H. (2020) Algorithmic cooling of nuclear spins using long-lived singlet order. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152 (16), 1-16. (doi:10.1063/5.0006742).

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Algorithmic cooling methods manipulate an open quantum system in order to lower its temperature below that of the environment. We achieve significant cooling of an ensemble of nuclear spin-pair systems by exploiting the long-lived nuclear singlet state, which is an antisymmetric quantum superposition of the "up" and "down" Zeeman states. The effect is demonstrated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments on a molecular system containing a coupled pair of near-equivalent 13C nuclei. The populations of the system are subjected to a repeating sequence of cyclic permutations separated by relaxation intervals. The long-lived nuclear singlet order is pumped well beyond the unitary limit. The pumped singlet order is converted into nuclear magnetization which is enhanced by 21% relative to its thermal equilibrium value.

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Accepted/In Press date: 3 April 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 April 2020
Published date: 30 April 2020

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Local EPrints ID: 439317
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439317
ISSN: 0021-9606
PURE UUID: adf3692e-9030-4bb3-8e01-acd8392ee674
ORCID for Christian Bengs: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0196-7817
ORCID for Lynda Brown: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5678-0814
ORCID for Richard Brown: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0156-7087
ORCID for Malcolm H. Levitt: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9878-1180

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Date deposited: 08 Apr 2020 16:32
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:52

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Author: Bogdan A. Rodin
Author: Christian Bengs ORCID iD
Author: Alexey S. Kiryutin
Author: Kirill F. Sheberstov
Author: Lynda Brown ORCID iD
Author: Richard Brown ORCID iD
Author: Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya
Author: Konstantin L. Ivanov

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