Derivation and evaluation of the fourth moment of NMR lineshape in zero-field

Vassilis Cutsuridis; Pawan K Kahol

doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.08.004

Derivation and evaluation of the fourth moment of NMR lineshape in zero-field

Solid State Nucl Magn Reson. 2008 Oct;34(3):191-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.08.004. Epub 2008 Sep 13.

Authors

Vassilis Cutsuridis¹, Pawan K Kahol

Affiliation

¹ Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK. vcu@cs.stir.ac.uk

PMID: 18930638
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.08.004

Abstract

An expression for the fourth moment in zero-field NMR has been analytically derived and numerically evaluated for a rigid cubic lattice. Model simulations have been performed to calculate the second moment, the fourth moment, the ratio of the fourth moment to the square of the second moment, and the width of the resonance line for a crystal and a polycrystalline material in high-field as well as in zero-field NMR. The simulation results allow us to draw two conclusions: (1) zero-field NMR gives sharper and better defined spectra than the high-field NMR and (2) the ratio of the high- to zero-field resonance line-widths is 4 for a crystal, whereas it is 11 for a polycrystalline material.