Effect of Degradation Processes Caused by a Small Perturbation on the Growth of the Average Cluster Size of Correlated Spins in Multiple Quantum NMR Spectroscopy of Solids
Multiple quantum (MQ) NMR spectroscopy of solids allows one to observe the growth and decay of multispin correlations. As a rule, the average size of the cluster of correlated spins is extracted from the width of the MQ spectrum. In the present article, the size distribution of such clusters is explored. To obtain the above distribution, the solutions for the amplitudes of the decomposition over complete sets of orthogonal operators for the two different models were used. By means of these models, we have taken into account the dependence of cluster degradation (the degradation of a cluster means, e.g., destruction of correlations in cluster or loss of particles in it) through two positions. The first one defines by the cluster size while the second one depends on the MQ coherence order of the cluster. It is shown that in dependence of the relation the rates of these degradation processes, the width of the MQ spectrum carries different information. If the first process is faster that the second one, then the width of the MQ spectrum is still determined by the average cluster size. When the velocity ratio becomes inverse, the width of the MQ spectrum takes on a smaller value, which is a consequence of the faster degradation of the MQ spectrum components with large orders of coherence.