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    Investigation of room temperature multispin-assisted bulk diamond 13C hyperpolarization at low magnetic fields
    (Bristol : IOP Publ., 2018) Wunderlich, Ralf; Kohlrautz, Jonas; Abel, Bernd; Haase, Jürgen; Meijer, Jan
    In this work we investigated the time behavior of the polarization of bulk 13C nuclei in diamond above the thermal equilibrium. This nonthermal nuclear hyperpolarization is achieved by cross relaxation between two nitrogen related paramagnetic defect species in diamond in combination with optical pumping. The decay of the hyperpolarization at four different magnetic fields is measured. Furthermore, we use the comparison with conventional nuclear resonance measurements to identify the involved distances of the nuclear spin with respect to the defects and therefore the coupling strengths. Also, a careful look at the linewidth of the signal give valuable information to piece together the puzzle of the hyperpolarization mechanism.
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    Weak electron irradiation suppresses the anomalous magnetization of N-doped diamond crystals
    (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2021) Setzer, Annette; Esquinazi, Pablo D.; Daikos, Olesya; Scherzer, Tom; Pöppl, Andreas; Staacke, Robert; Lühmann, Tobias; Pezzagna, Sebastien; Knolle, Wolfgang; Buga, Sergei; Abel, Bernd; Meijer, Jan
    Several diamond bulk crystals with a concentration of electrically neutral single substitutional nitrogen atoms of ≲80 ppm, the so-called C or P1 centers, are irradiated with electrons at 10 MeV energy and low fluence. The results show a complete suppression of the irreversible behavior in field and temperature of the magnetization below 30 K, after a decrease in ≲40 ppm in the concentration of C centers produced by the electron irradiation. This result indicates that magnetic C centers are at the origin of the large hysteretic behavior found recently in nitrogen-doped diamond crystals. This is remarkable because of the relatively low density of C centers, stressing the extraordinary role of the C centers in triggering those phenomena in diamond at relatively high temperatures. After annealing the samples at high temperatures in vacuum, the hysteretic behavior is partially recovered.