Quantum theory of optical NMR and ESR in atoms

✍ Scribed by M.W. Evans

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 710 KB
• Volume: 179
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(92)90022-k

✦ Synopsis

The quantum theory of laser induced nuclear spin and electron paramagnetic resonance (optical NMR and ESR respectively) is developed using the irreducible spherical representations of the appropriate mediating molecular property tensors, alpha (the vectorial polarisability), and beta (a magnetic/electric/electric hyperpolarisability). The quantum structure of the theory is developed with a simple application of the Wigner/Eckart theorem in the point group of atoms, and using Griffith/Harnung theory for the point groups of molecules. The results are expressed as simple laser induced shifts and splittings in hertz for comparison with experimental data.