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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Suppression of Spin Diffusion near a Micron-Size Ferromagnet
Abstract
We have used the large gradients generated near the ferromagnetic tip of a magnetic resonance force microscope to locally suppress spin diffusion in a silica sample containing paramagnetic electron spins. By controlling the slice location with respect to the tip, the magnetic field gradient was varied from 0.01 to [Formula presented], resulting in a fourfold decrease in [Formula presented] and a similar decrease in [Formula presented]. The observed dependence of the relaxation rates on field gradient is consistent with the quenching of flip-flop interactions that mediate the transport of magnetization between slow and fast relaxing spins. © 2004 The American Physical Society.