Spin relaxation: under the sun, anything new?
Abstract. Spin relaxation has been at the core of many studies since the early days of NMR, and the undelying theory worked out by its founding fathers. However, this theory has been recently questioned (Bengs and Levitt (2020)) in the light of Linblad theory of quantum Markovian master equations. In this article, we review the conventional approach of quantum mechanical theory of NMR relaxation and show that under the usual assumptions, it is equivalent to the Linblad formulation. We also comment on the debate over semi-classical versus quantum versions of spectral density functions involved in relaxation.
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