Field dependence of electron relaxation

Tie are also expected to be field-dependent. Their field dependence can be described by two parameters the electron relaxation time at low fields Tso, and the correlation time for the electron relaxation mechanism Ty (see Eq. (14) of Chapter 2) (5). However, Tso usually depends on (see Eq. (52) of Chapter 2). Therefore, it is preferable to select two different parameters for describing the field dependence of electron relaxation. For S > 1/2 systems, in case the electron relaxation is due to modulation of a time dependent transient zero-field splitting, A, (pseudorotational model), the Bloembergen-Morgan equations are obtained 5,6) ... 

The functional form of the nuclear longitudinal relaxation immediately suggests that the contact contribution can provide the values of the contact coupling constant and of 72e = Tso, provided that the lifetime, xm, is longer than T e- No information on the field dependence of electron relaxation can be achieved. On the contrary the functional form of transverse nuclear relaxation contains a non-dispersive term, Tig. The latter, as we have seen for the dipolar contribution, increases with increasing the field (Fig. 3), and therefore the nuclear contact transverse relaxation also increases with increasing the field. Its measurement is thus informative on the t value. 

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