Microscopic model of spin flip-flop processes in rare-earth-ion-doped crystals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01371v1
• Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 08:41:49 GMT
• Title: Microscopic model of spin flip-flop processes in rare-earth-ion-doped crystals
• Authors: Hafsa Syed, Adam Kinos, Chunyan Shi, Lars Rippe, Stefan Kr\"oll
• Abstract summary: We present a microscopic model of flip-flop interactions between individual nuclear spins of dopant ions. Each ion has a unique flip-flop rate and the collective relaxation dynamics of all ions in a bulk crystal is a sum of many exponential decays. We also present a new method to measure rates of individual transitions from hole burning spectra.
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• Abstract: Flip-flop processes due to magnetic dipole-dipole interaction between neighbouring ions in rare-earth-ion-doped crystals is one of the mechanisms of relaxation between hyperfine levels. Modeling of this mechanism has so far been macroscopic, characterized by an average rate describing the relaxation of all ions. Here however, we present a microscopic model of flip-flop interactions between individual nuclear spins of dopant ions. Every ion is situated in a unique local environment in the crystal, where each ion has different distances and a unique orientation relative to its nearest neighbors, as determined by the lattice structure. Thus, each ion has a unique flip-flop rate and the collective relaxation dynamics of all ions in a bulk crystal is a sum of many exponential decays, giving rise to a distribution of rates rather than a single average decay rate. We employ this model to calculate flip-flop rates in Pr$^{3+}$:Y$_2$SiO$_5$ and show experimental measurements of population decay of the ground state hyperfine levels at $\sim$2 K. We also present a new method to measure rates of individual transitions from hole burning spectra that requires significantly fewer fitting parameters in theoretical rate equations compared to earlier work. Furthermore, we measure the effect of external magnetic field on the flip-flop rates and observe that the rates slow down by two orders of magnitude in a field of 5 - 10 mT.

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