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Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1512–1515 (1984)

Collective Spin Oscillations in Spin-Polarized Gases: Spin-Polarized Hydrogen

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Laurent P. Lévy
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

Andrei E. Ruckenstein
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

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Received 24 January 1984; published in the issue dated 23 April 1984

The spin dynamics of weakly interacting, spin-polarized quantum gases are discussed in terms of a quasiparticle picture of these systems. Quantum mechanical exchange between identical particles introduces "molecular" magnetic fields which give rise to the precession of the spin current; this in turn leads to coherent oscillations of the magnetization. The theory is used to discuss magnetic resonance experiments in spin-polarized atomic hydrogen.

© 1984 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1512
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1512
PACS:
67.20.+k, 67.90.+z

See Also

Erratum: Laurent P. Lévy and Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Collective Spin Oscillations in Spin-Polarized Gases: Spin-Polarized Hydrogen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 302 (1984).