Hyperfine - Hamiltonian

The leading term in T nuc is usually the magnetic hyperfine coupling IAS which connects the electron spin S and the nuclear spin 1. It is parameterized by the hyperfine coupling tensor A. The /-dependent nuclear Zeeman interaction and the electric quadrupole interaction are included as 2nd and 3rd terms. Their detailed description for Fe is provided in Sects. 4.3 and 4.4. The total spin Hamiltonian for electronic and nuclear spin variables is then ... 

The underlying physics and analysis of Mossbauer spectra have been explained in detail in Chap. 4. In that chapter, the principles of how a spectrum is parameterized in terms of spin-Hamiltonian (SH) parameters and the physical origin of these SH parameters have been clarified. Many Mossbauer studies, mainly for Fe, have been performed and there is a large body of experimental data concerning electric-and magnetic-hyperfine interactions that is accessible through the Mossbauer Effect Database. 

Finally, the spin Hamiltonian also contains contributions from the magnetic and quadrupole hyperfine interactions, Hhf and Hq where... 

However, when it comes to the simulation of NFS spectra fi om a polycrystalline paramagnetic system exposed to a magnetic field, it turns out that this is not a straightforward task, especially if no information is available from conventional Mossbauer studies. Our eyes are much better adjusted to energy-domain spectra and much less to their Fourier transform therefore, a first guess of spin-Hamiltonian and hyperfine-interaction parameters is facilitated by recording conventional Mossbauer spectra. 

In Equation (6) ge is the electronic g tensor, yn is the nuclear g factor (dimensionless), fln is the nuclear magneton in erg/G (or J/T), In is the nuclear spin angular momentum operator, An is the electron-nuclear hyperfine tensor in Hz, and Qn (non-zero for fn > 1) is the quadrupole interaction tensor in Hz. The first two terms in the Hamiltonian are the electron and nuclear Zeeman interactions, respectively the third term is the electron-nuclear hyperfine interaction and the last term is the nuclear quadrupole interaction. For the usual systems with an odd number of unpaired electrons, the transition moment is finite only for a magnetic dipole moment operator oriented perpendicular to the static magnetic field direction. In an ESR resonator in which the sample is placed, the microwave magnetic field must be therefore perpendicular to the external static magnetic field. The selection rules for the electron spin transitions are given in Equation (7)... 

The special case of isotropic g and hyperfine interaction will now be considered. This simplification is valid when the anisotropic interactions are averaged by rapid tumbling. The quadrupole interaction will be omitted because it is purely anisotropic. The resulting simplified spin Hamiltonian is given in Equation (9). 

Once a hyperfine pattern has been recognized, the line position information can be summarized by the spin Hamiltonian parameters, g and at. These parameters can be extracted from spectra by a linear least-squares fit of experimental line positions to eqn (2.3). However, for high-spin nuclei and/or large couplings, one soon finds that the lines are not evenly spaced as predicted by eqn (2.3) and second-order corrections must be made. Solving the spin Hamiltonian, eqn (2.1), to second order in perturbation theory, eqn (2.3) becomes 4... 

Thus the hyperfine term of the spin Hamiltonian becomes ... 

The spin Hamiltonian for a biradical consists of terms representing the electron Zeeman interaction, the exchange coupling of the two electron spins, and hyperfine interaction of each electron with the nuclear spins. We assume that there are two equivalent nuclei, each strongly coupled to one electron and essentially uncoupled to the other. The spin Hamiltonian is ... 

If we expand the hyperfine term of the spin Hamiltonian and write the operators in terms of raising and lowering operators ... 

Starting with the two ways of expressing the hyperfine Hamiltonian term, we equate the coefficients of Sx, Sy and Sz ... 

The spin Hamiltonian for the hydrogen atom will be used to determine the energy levels in the presence of an external magnetic field. As indicated in Section II.A, the treatment may be simplified if it is recognized that the g factor and the hyperfine constant are essentially scalar quantities in this particular example. An additional simplification results if the z direction is defined as the direction of the magnetic field. For this case H = Hz and Hx = Hv = 0 hence,... 

The method presented here for evaluating energy levels from the spin Hamiltonian and then determining the allowed transitions is quite general and can be applied to more complex systems by using the appropriate spin Hamiltonian. Of particular interest in surface studies are molecules for which the g values, as well as the hyperfine coupling constants, are not isotropic. These cases will be discussed in the next two sections. 

The hyperfine constant a in Eq. (1) was also taken to be a scalar quantity for the hydrogen atom however, it is in general a tensor because of the various directional interactions in a paramagnetic species. The hyperfine term in the spin Hamiltonian is more correctly written as S-a-I, where a is the hyperfine coupling tensor. 

Aniosotropic hyperfine coupling results primarily from dipolar interactions between a magnetic nucleus and an unpaired electron in a p, d, or f orbital. Such interactions give rise to a Hamiltonian... 

An indirect mode of anisotropic hyperfine interaction arises as a result of strong spin-orbit interaction (174)- Nuclear and electron spin magnetic moments are coupled to each other because both are coupled to the orbital magnetic moment. The Hamiltonian is... 

The formal treatment is quite similar to the derivation of the principal g values as developed in Eqs. (7C) through (18C). The second-order energy term is set equal to the hyperfine term from the spin Hamiltonian, and for the z direction... 

We now single out one of these interactions for our discussion of the integer-spin 5 = 2 system, and we defer an explanation of this deliberate choice to the end of this section. We write the spin Hamiltonian for an isolated system (i.e., no interactions between paramagnets) with 5 = 2 and 7=0 (i.e., no hyperfine interactions) as... 

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