Quantum probe hyperpolarisation of molecular nuclear spins.

ABSTRACT: Hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins is important in overcoming sensitivity and resolution limitations of magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Current hyperpolarisation techniques require high magnetic fields, low temperatures, or catalysts. Alternatively, the emergence of room temperature spin qubits has opened new pathways to achieve direct nuclear spin hyperpolarisation. Employing a microwave-free cross-relaxation induced polarisation protocol applied to a nitrogen vacancy qubit, we demonstrate quantum probe hyperpolarisation of external molecular nuclear spins to ~50% under ambient conditions, showing a single qubit increasing the polarisation of ~10⁶ nuclear spins by six orders of magnitude over the thermal background. Results are verified a

SUBMITTER: Broadway DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5871805 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature