FIELD DEPENDENCE OF SPIN-LATTICE RELAXATION TIMES OF Cr3+
Relative changes in the effective, one-phonon, spin-lattice relaxation time with transition, magnitude, and direction of magnetic field, frequency, and temperature have been computed for Cr3+ in K3Co(CN)6, Al2O3, and RbAl(SO4)2∙12H2O from a simplified expression for the transition probability requiring knowledge of only the spin Hamiltonian for the particular salt. A comparison with published experimental data, augmented by measurements obtained as part of the present work, indicates that the changes are usually predicted to better than a factor of two.Calculations show that the pulse saturation, resonance-dispersion, and steady-state saturation techniques should yield the same effective spin-lattice relaxation time for an S > 1/2 spin system, when the return to equilibrium is characterized by a simple exponential.