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Title: Room-temperature in situ nuclear spin hyperpolarization from optically pumped nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond

Abstract

Low detection sensitivity stemming from the weak polarization of nuclear spins is a primary limitation of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. Methods have been developed to enhance nuclear spin polarization but they typically require high magnetic fields, cryogenic temperatures or sample transfer between magnets. Here we report bulk, room-temperature hyperpolarization of 13C nuclear spins observed via high-field magnetic resonance. The technique harnesses the high optically induced spin polarization of diamond nitrogen vacancy centres at room temperature in combination with dynamic nuclear polarization. We observe bulk nuclear spin polarization of 6%, an enhancement of ~170,000 over thermal equilibrium. The signal of the hyperpolarized spins was detected in situ with a standard nuclear magnetic resonance probe without the need for sample shuttling or precise crystal orientation. In conclusion, hyperpolarization via optical pumping/dynamic nuclear polarization should function at arbitrary magnetic fields enabling orders of magnitude sensitivity enhancement for nuclear magnetic resonance of solids and liquids under ambient conditions.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1256043
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1415948
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

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King, Jonathan P., Jeong, Keunhong, Vassiliou, Christophoros C., Shin, Chang S., Page, Ralph H., Avalos, Claudia E., Wang, Hai-Jing, and Pines, Alexander. Room-temperature in situ nuclear spin hyperpolarization from optically pumped nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms9965.
King, Jonathan P., Jeong, Keunhong, Vassiliou, Christophoros C., Shin, Chang S., Page, Ralph H., Avalos, Claudia E., Wang, Hai-Jing, & Pines, Alexander. Room-temperature in situ nuclear spin hyperpolarization from optically pumped nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9965
King, Jonathan P., Jeong, Keunhong, Vassiliou, Christophoros C., Shin, Chang S., Page, Ralph H., Avalos, Claudia E., Wang, Hai-Jing, and Pines, Alexander. Mon . "Room-temperature in situ nuclear spin hyperpolarization from optically pumped nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9965. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256043.
@article{osti_1256043,
title = {Room-temperature in situ nuclear spin hyperpolarization from optically pumped nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond},
author = {King, Jonathan P. and Jeong, Keunhong and Vassiliou, Christophoros C. and Shin, Chang S. and Page, Ralph H. and Avalos, Claudia E. and Wang, Hai-Jing and Pines, Alexander},
abstractNote = {Low detection sensitivity stemming from the weak polarization of nuclear spins is a primary limitation of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. Methods have been developed to enhance nuclear spin polarization but they typically require high magnetic fields, cryogenic temperatures or sample transfer between magnets. Here we report bulk, room-temperature hyperpolarization of 13C nuclear spins observed via high-field magnetic resonance. The technique harnesses the high optically induced spin polarization of diamond nitrogen vacancy centres at room temperature in combination with dynamic nuclear polarization. We observe bulk nuclear spin polarization of 6%, an enhancement of ~170,000 over thermal equilibrium. The signal of the hyperpolarized spins was detected in situ with a standard nuclear magnetic resonance probe without the need for sample shuttling or precise crystal orientation. In conclusion, hyperpolarization via optical pumping/dynamic nuclear polarization should function at arbitrary magnetic fields enabling orders of magnitude sensitivity enhancement for nuclear magnetic resonance of solids and liquids under ambient conditions.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms9965},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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