Spin Hamiltonian electronic Zeeman interaction

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 ... 

We now notice that we could write a Hamiltonian operator that would give the same matrix elements we have here, but as a first-order result. Including the electron Zeeman interaction term, we have the resulting spin Hamiltonian ... 

Systems with more than one unpaired electron are not only subject to the electronic Zeeman interaction but also to the magnetic-field independent interelectronic zero-field interaction, and the spin Hamiltonian then becomes... 

We can now extend the spin Hamiltonians by making combinations of T, with B, and/or S, and/or I, and since we are interested in the effect of strain on the g-value from the electronic Zeeman interaction (B S), the combination of interest here is T B S. 

Hamiltonian matrix for the cubic ligand held, spin-orbit coupling and the electronic Zeeman interaction in the real cubic bases of a 2D term. The g-factor for the free electron has been set to two for clarity (Table A.l). 

Application of an external magnetic field alters the nature of some of the magnetic interactions in a RP and also leads to additional terms in the spin Hamiltonian through the electron Zeeman interaction. 

For the simulation of ESR spectra one has to solve the spin Hamiltonian of Eq. (10). The easiest way to do this is to regard all the different terms in the spin Hamiltonian as small compared with the electron Zeeman interaction and to use perturbation theory of the first order. The Zeeman term can easily be solved within the eigensystem of the Sz operator (in the main axis system of the g-tensor or S 2=5 for isotropic cases), for instance in the isotropic case ... 

The information obtained from the spin Hamiltonian, the 3x3 matrices g, D, A, and P, is very sensitive to the geometric and electronic structure of the paramagnetic center. The electron Zeeman interaction reveals information about the electronic states the zero-field splitting describes the coupling between electrons for systems where S > Vi the hyperfine interactions contain information about the spin density distribution [8] and can be used to evaluate the distance and orientation between the unpaired electron and the nucleus the nuclear Zeeman interaction identifies the nucleus the nuclear quadrupole interaction is sensitive to the electric field gradient at the site of the nucleus and thus provides information on the local electron density. 

For a perfect high-field case, where electron Zeeman interaction dominates ZFS and all other terms in the spin Hamiltonian, the only secular term in the dipolar interaction is given by... 

The ZFS of Gd(iii)-centres is, however, not negligibly small, as compared to the electron Zeeman interaction, and especially at low detection frequencies and strong ZFS, can even be of almost the same magnitude. This leads to corrections for the eigenstates of the complete spin Hamiltonian. As a result, the secular part of dipolar interaction is also modified and the dipolar frequency between two states from eqn (4) ean be generally expressed as... 

The usual way of solving eqn (7) requires its transformation into the interaction representation (Dirac picture) that is often called rotating frame for a particular case, when static part of the spin Hamiltonian is restricted to the electron Zeeman interaction. In the Dirac picture only the stochastic dipolar interaction is left in the spin Hamiltonian, its matrix elements get additional oscillatory factors due to the static Hamiltonian transitions. The integral on each matrix element of the double commutator in eqn (7) thus evolves into the Fourier transform /(co ) of the correlation function for the corresponding stochastic process. This Fourier transform is often called spectral density of the stochastic process and it is to be taken at a frequency co of a particular transition of the static Hamiltonian operator, driven by a single transition operator ki ... 

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)... 

Suppose we have an isolated system with a single unpaired electron and no hyper-fine interaction. Mononuclear low-spin Fe111 and many iron-sulfur clusters fall in this category (cf. Table 4.2). The only relevant interaction is the electronic Zeeman term, so the spin Hamiltonian is... 

The spin Hamiltonian encompassing electronic Zeeman plus strain interaction for a cubic S = 1/2 system is (Pake and Estle 1973 Equation 7-21) ... 

We now come back to the simplest possible nuclear spin system, containing only one kind of nuclei 7, hyperfine-coupled to electron spin S. In the Solomon-Bloembergen-Morgan theory, both spins constitute the spin system with the unperturbed Hamiltonian containing the two Zeeman interactions. The dipole-dipole interaction and the interactions leading to the electron spin relaxation constitute the perturbation, treated by means of the Redfield theory. In this section, we deal with a situation where the electron spin is allowed to be so strongly coupled to the other degrees of freedom that the Redfield treatment of the combined IS spin system is not possible. In Section V, we will be faced with a situation where the electron spin is in... 

The summation index n has the same meaning as in Eq. (31), i.e., it enumerates the components of the interaction between the nuclear spin I and the remainder of the system (which thus contains both the electron spin and the thermal bath), expressed as spherical tensors. are components of the hyperfine Hamiltonian, in angular frequency units, expressed in the interaction representation (18,19), with the electron Zeeman and the ZFS in the zeroth order Hamiltonian Hq. The operator H (t) is evaluated as ... 

Bertini and co-workers 119) and Kruk et al. 96) formulated a theory of electron spin relaxation in slowly-rotating systems valid for arbitrary relation between the static ZFS and the Zeeman interaction. The unperturbed, static Hamiltonian was allowed to contain both these interactions. Such an unperturbed Hamiltonian, Hq, depends on the relative orientation of the molecule-fixed P frame and the laboratory frame. For cylindrically symmetric ZFS, we need only one angle, p, to specify the orientation of the two frames. The eigenstates of Hq(P) were used to define the basis set in which the relaxation superoperator Rzpsi ) expressed. The superoperator M, the projection vectors and the electron-spin spectral densities cf. Eqs. (62-64)), all become dependent on the angle p. The expression in Eq. (61) needs to be modified in two ways first, we need to include the crossterms electron-spin spectral densities, and These terms can be... 

A more general theory for outer-sphere paramagnetic relaxation enhancement, valid for an arbitrary relation between the Zeeman coupling and the axial static ZFS, has been developed by Kruk and co-workers (96 in the same paper which dealt with the inner-sphere case. The static ZFS was included, along with the Zeeman interaction in the unperturbed Hamiltonian. The general expression for the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate of the outer-sphere nuclei was written in terms of electron spin spectral densities, as ... 

When magnetic fields are present, the intrinsic spin angular momenta of the electrons S (j) and of the nuclei I(k) are affected by the field in a manner that produces additional energy contributions to the total Hamiltonian H. The Zeeman interaction of an external magnetic field (e.g., the earth s magnetic field of 4. Gauss or that of a NMR... 

The spin Hamiltonian is an artificial but useful concept. It is possible that more than one spin Hamiltonian will fit the data. Further, we should note that in solving Eq. (48), we start with pure + and — spin functions and talk about the upper and lower states as being pure spin states. This is not the true case for the ion, as has already been noted in Eq. (38). As regards the Zeeman interaction, however, the final state behaves as a pure spin state, except that we must assign g values different from that of the free electron. 

The EPR spectra have always been interpreted2994 using an effective S = 2 spin Hamiltonian including the Zeeman term, /iBB g-S, and the hyperfine term, ICa-A-S, which describes the interaction of the unpaired electrons with the copper nucleus (7Cu = I). The spectra are very sensitive to the ratio between the isotropic coupling constant J and the local zero field splitting of nickel(II), Z)Ni.2982 In the limit J DNi it can easily be shown that the following relations hold ... 

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