Reformulating the NMR Quantum Mechanics Fundamental Aspects: Spin 1/2 Evolution in Magnetic Field Gradients

TL;DR

This paper presents a quantum mechanical approach to spin 1/2 systems in magnetic field gradients, explaining experimental phenomena and proposing new methods for NMR imaging and quantum computation without RF fields.

Contribution

It reformulates the fundamental quantum mechanics of spin 1/2 systems, explaining sign changes in noise spectra and enabling NMR imaging without radio frequency magnetic fields.

Findings

Explains sign change in nuclear spin noise spectra.

Proposes NMR imaging without RF magnetic fields.

Suggests manipulation of entangled spin states via magnetic field gradients.

Abstract

Magnetization of a spin1/2 set is determined by means of their individual wave function. The theoretical treatment based on the fundamental axioms of quantum mechanics and solving explicitly Schr\"odinger equation gives the evolution of spin1/2 system driven by magnetic fields. In this work we consider the energy of the spin system interacting with magnetic fields and all the other parts of the energy as a constant reservoir. Solving this complete Hamiltonian can explain the measured sign change of nuclear spin noise spectra compared to conventional NMR experiments and the possibility to make NMR images without radio frequency magnetic fields. The possibility to make NMR images without RF magnetic fields is an indication that entangled spin1/2 states can be manipulated by magnetic field gradients, opening a new way to perform quantum computation by NMR.