Abstract
Utilizing phases of radio frequency (RF) pulses to manipulate spin dynamics is routine in NMR and MRI, leading to spectacular techniques like phase cycling. In a very different area, cross polarization (CP) also has a long history as part of a vast number of solid-state NMR pulse sequences. However, a detailed study devoted to the effect of CP RF phases on NMR signal, seems not to be readily available. From first principles, we arrive at a simple dependence of NMR signal on arbitrary CP RF phases, for static and MAS conditions, accompanied by experimental verification. In the process, the CP propagator emerges as a product of RF “pulses” and a period of “free precession”, conforming to coherence transfer pathway theory. The theoretical expressions may lend confidence for dealing with CP blocks with tunable phases in pulse sequences.
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