Effective one-body dynamics in multiple-quantum Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments

E. RUFEIL FIORI; H. M. PASTAWSKI; P. R. LEVSTEIN; C. M. SÁNCHEZ; F. Y. OLIVA

Buenos Aires

Congreso; XV Giambiagi winter school. Information processing in biological systems: from cells to equations, and back; 2013

Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires

A suitable Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) experiment at room temperature in a one-dimensional dipolar coupled spin system allows one to reduce the natural many-body dynamics into effective one-body dynamics. We verify this in a polycrystalline sample of hydroxyapatite (HAp) by monitoring the excitation of NMR many-body superposition states: the multiple quantum coherences. The observed effective one-dimensionality of HAp relies on the quasi-one-dimensional structure of the dipolar coupled network that is dynamically enhanced by the quantum Zeno effect. Decoherence is also probed through a Loschmidt echo experiment, where the time reversal is implemented on the double-quantum Hamiltonian, HDQ ∝ Ii Ij + Ii Ij . We contrast the decoherence of adamantane, a standard three-dimensional system, with that of HAp. While the first shows an abrupt Fermi-type decay, HAp presents a smooth exponential law.