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Seung-Ho Baek

October 13(Fri) - October 13(Fri), 2017

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in condensed matter research

Seung-Ho Baek

IFW-Dresden

Abstract :

The nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique has been an important local probe in the

research of condensed matter physics since it was discovered by Bloch and Purcell in 1946. Quite

often, however, the data and their analysis/interpretation in typical condensed matter NMR

studies are not straightforward and complicated. Probably due to this reason, I find that the

capabilities that NMR can do or the unique strengths that NMR possesses are somewhat

underrated.

A serious problem I view is the lack of useful or appropriate references for NMR. A couple of

introductory books [1,2,3] could be found, but they are not so useful for general readers. Having

this situation in mind, I prepared this tutorial for the purpose of providing a practical and useful

reference and guide for condensed matter NMR.

I will introduce and discuss the essential methods and principles of the NMR technique, focusing

on how they are currently applied in modern condensed matter research. I anticipate that this

tutorial is helpful not only for undergraduate/graduate students but also for researchers,

particularly, in strongly correlated materials.

[1] A. Abragam, The principles of Nuclear magnetism (1961)

[2] J. Winter, Magnetic Resonance in Metals (1971)

[3] C. P. Slichter, Principles of Magnetic Resonance (1990)