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Nuclear magnetic resonance

Long live the spin

A technique for protecting out-of-equilibrium nuclear spin states from thermalization while offering a route to converting them into observable NMR signal is an important contribution to a field that welcomes every bit of extra signal.

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Trabesinger, A. Long live the spin. Nature Phys 8, 781–782 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2462

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