Magnetic hyperfine tensor

Hm describes the hyperfine interaction with the 57Fe nucleus. A is the magnetic hyperfine tensor and Hq describes the interaction of the quadrupole moment Q of the 7=3/2 nuclear excited state with the (traceless) electric field gradient (EFG) tensor V (the nuclear ground state has 7= 1/2 and lacks a spectroscopic quadrupole moment). In the absence of magnetic effects (for instance, for S 0, or S = integer for B = 0), the Mossbauer spectrum consists of a doublet with quadrupole splitting ... 

The most comprehensive information obtained from a Mossbauer spectrum is contained in Bint that depends on the magnetic hyperfine tensor A and, through (S), on the ZFS, the electronic g tensor (and exchange couplings when we consider polynuclear systems). For samples containing randomly oriented molecules, such as poly crystalline powders or molecules in frozen solution, the Mossbauer spectrum depends on the orientation of the molecule relative to the direction of the applied field,4 6 which is fixed in the laboratory and is generally either parallel or perpendicular to the direction of Mossbauer radiation. As a consequence, the spectrum is a powder average from which we have to extract the various tensor quantities of... 

FIGURE 1. Structure of an arsinyl radical together with the mutual orientation of the ESR tensors (T As magnetic hyperfine tensor, P As quadrupolar interaction)... 

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 ... 

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 calculation of magnetic parameters such as the hyperfine coupling constants and g-factors for oligonuclear clusters is of fundamental importance as a tool for the evaluation of spectroscopic data from EPR and ENDOR experiments. The hyperfine interaction is experimentally interpreted with the spin Hamiltonian (SH) H = S - A-1, where S is the fictitious, electron spin operator related to the ground state of the cluster, A is the hyperfine tensor, and I is the nuclear spin operator. Consequently, it is... 

Some the best-known work of Grein and his coworkers involves the development of methods for the calculation of hyperfine coupling constants.141 More recently the focus has shifted to calculating magnetic g-tensors from highly correlated wavefunctions. Grein s current interests include the study of stereoelectronic effects (such as the anomeric and reverse anomeric effects in acetal-like systems) in organic chemistry, a topic to which he has made important contributions.142... 

The first term is the Zeeman interaction depending upon the g(RS OW, q ) tensor, external magnetic field B0 and electron spin momentum operator S the second term is the hyperfine interaction of the th nucleus and the unpaired electron, defined in terms hyperfine tensor A (Rsklw, qj) and nuclear spin momentum operator n. The following terms do not affect directly the magnetic properties and account for probe-solvent [tfprobe—solvent (Rsiow, qJ)l ld solvent-solvent //solvent ( qj)] interactions. An explicit... 

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