The thesis extends the concept of Irreducible Spherical Tensor Operators to spin dynamics problems in Nuclear Magnetic and Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy. NQR and solid state NMR deal with spin systems which behave as effective single spins in many, pulsed experiments, or as multispin systems when the dipolar interactions among spins cannot be neglected. The thesis considers problems in both areas. New analytic results are derived in the thesis for pure NQR spectroscopy and for the effect of radiofrequency fields in the presence of electric quadrupolar interaction. Three-pulse experiments are proposed for a spin-5/2 system and quantitative calculations are done for the indirect detection of new observables. Attention is focussed on the usefulness of the full-spin density matrix in all these calculations. In addition the concept of multispin tensors is applied to a system of spin-1/2 nuclei with strong dipolar interactions. This leads to coupled differential equations for correlations among spins for which an iterative solution can be obtained. The solutions are discussed in relation to Free Induction Decay experiments available for $ sp{19}$F nuclei in CaF$ sb2$ crystal.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.75771 |
| Date | January 1987 |
| Creators | Krishnan, Mangala Sunder |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000665218, proquestno: AAINL46155, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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