Alignment-to-orientation conversion and nuclear quadrupole resonance

✍ Scribed by D. Budker; D.F. Kimball; S.M. Rochester; J.T. Urban

• Book ID: 104108539
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 264 KB
• Volume: 378
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(03)01327-7

✦ Synopsis

The role of alignment-to-orientation conversion (AOC) in nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) is discussed. AOC is shown to be the mechanism responsible for the appearance of macroscopic orientation in a sample originally lacking any global polarization. Parallels are drawn between NQR and AOC in atomic physics.