Continuous-Time Random Walk Description of Anomalous Spin Transport in Dilute Dipolar Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22626v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:47:57 GMT
• Title: Continuous-Time Random Walk Description of Anomalous Spin Transport in Dilute Dipolar Networks
• Abstract summary: We develop a continuous-time random-walk (CTRW) description of $13$C polarization transport in natural-abundance diamond (1.1%)<n>Although site-to-site hopping is Markovian, the disorder-averaged dynamics give rise to emergent, anomalous transport.
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• Abstract: Nuclear spin diffusion is often summarized by a single diffusion coefficient, but this coarse-grained description can fail in dilute solids where positional disorder and long-range dipolar couplings generate a broad distribution of hopping rates. We develop a continuous-time random-walk (CTRW) description of $^{13}$C polarization transport in natural-abundance diamond (1.1%), constructing the rate matrix from dipolar-mediated flip-flop couplings and sampling exact continuous-time trajectories. Although site-to-site hopping is Markovian, the disorder-averaged dynamics give rise to emergent, anomalous transport. The empirical waiting-time distribution exhibits a heavy tail with exponent $α=0.64$ and exponential cutoff $t_{\rm cutoff}=19$ s; the mean jump length becomes correlated with the waiting time $τ$ for $τ\gtrsim0.1$ s; and the mean-squared displacement grows sublinearly in both step number and physical time, with exponents $γ=0.56$ and $δ=0.87$ respectively. We trace the microscopic origin of these signatures to geometric trapping: polarization can rapidly exchange within strongly coupled clusters, including dimers, while weak inter-cluster links control long-range exploration. A kinetic percolation construction links global transport to inter-cluster crossing times, and identifies a corresponding crossing time of $\sim20$ s, consistent with $t_{\rm cutoff}$. Finally, mapping paramagnetic impurities onto hard-sphere traps connects the CTRW framework to classic studies of trapping in reaction-diffusion theory and reproduces the qualitative timescale of experimentally measured relaxation, whereas a continuum diffusion equation description does not. These results show that dilute dipolar spin networks require a microscopic, network-resolved transport description beyond the Fickian diffusion equation.

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