Flip-flop interaction spin diffusion

Echo detection of selectively-burned holes in photosynthetic systems led to estimates of distances between 25 and 50 A. If the contributions to spectral diffusion from motion, nuclear spin flip-flops, and instantaneous diffusion are smaller than the contribution from dipolar interaction between unpaired electrons, the spectral diffusion can be used to determine the interspin distance. (97-100). 

For the dilute aH spins surrounded by a large number of the 2H spins, the heteronuclear aH-H dipolar interaction is dominant, lifting the spectral overlap between the 1H packets. H spin diffusion is driven by the flip-flop term of the 1H-1H dipolar interaction, which becomes secular in the presence of spectral overlap. Thus, spin diffusion would be accelerated if it had not been for the 1H-2H dipolar interaction. In order to confirm this prediction, they used another RF channel of the OPENCORE... 

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