Transient nutations decay in diluted paramagnetic solids: a radiation damping mechanism

Abstract

Here, a theory of the intensity and concentration dependent damping of nutation signals observed by Boscaino et al. (Phys. Rev B 48, 7077 (1993); Phys. Rev. A 59, 4087 (1999)) and by others in various two-level spin systems is proposed. It is shown that in diluted paramagnetic solids contribution of dipole-dipole interaction to the nutation decay is negligibly small. We elaborated a cavity loss (radiation damping) mechanism that explains the intensity- and concentration dependence of the damping. It is shown that instead of ordinary Bloch's transverse T2 and longitudinal T1 damping parameters the decay of transverse and longitudinal spin components in nutation process are described by one and the same intensity-, concentration-, frequency- and time dependent damping parameter.