Description
This book is a tribute to E.L. Hahn, an outstanding physicist whose discovery of spin echoes and demonstration of nuclear free induction decay led to the most important methods of modern nuclear magnetic resonance. The wide impact of these methods in physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine is fully acknowledged. In addition, Hahn’s fundamental contributions in nuclear quadrupole echo phenomena, level crossing techniques, self-induced transparency and laser physics have been of paramount importance. Reflecting the diversity of these key discoveries and their vital influence, the articles presented here offer a stimulating and challenging contribution to the scientific literature which will be read by students and research workers from the wide range of disciplines using NMR techniques. The echo phenomenon; Pulsed NMR in solids then and now; New angles in motional averaging; The multidimensional importance of time-domain magnetic resonance; NMR and enzymes; Spin echoes and thermodynamics; Thermodynamics of Hartmann-Hahn cross-polarization; On the possibility of nuclear self-spin-locking in ferromagnets; High-temperature superconductivity and an apparent breakdown of causality; Spin choreography; The two-pulse spin echo revisited; Deuteron multiple echoes; Spin echoes and the dynamic properties of membranes; Imaging by nuclear magnetic resonance; Clinical imaging; Pulsed electron-nuclear spectroscopy and the study of metalloprotein active sites; Electron spin echo envelope modulation studies of mixed valence manganese complexes: applications to the catalytic manganese cluster of photosynthetic oxygen evolution; Nuclear orientation via electron spin locking in Si:B; Coherent Raman beats in electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; Time evolution of electron-nuclear cross-polarization in radiofrequency induced optical nuclear spin polarization; Optical excitation and detection of spin precession; Quantum beat echoes.
