Decoherence-Induced Stabilization of the Multiple-Quantum NMR-Spectrum Width

Abstract

The time dependence of an increase in the number of correlated spins in cluster was calculated for a particular variant of multiple-quantum (MQ) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy using an effective two-quantum Hamiltonian that includes conventional secular nuclear dipole–dipole interaction as a weak perturbation at the stage of correlation preparation. It was shown that the cluster size grows steadily, while the width of the MQ spectrum stabilizes because the decay rates of the spectral components located at different areas of the MQ spectrum are different. The MQ bandwidth was also calculated as a function of the preparation time for various perturbation strengths. The results obtained are in excellent agreement with the experimental data reported in Álvarez and Suter (Phys Rev A 84:012320, 2011).