Spin temperatures under dynamic polarization in a one-dimensional system, the TANOL

A quantitative model of Tanol submitted to dynamic polarization has been developed. The spin systems are described using a network of interconnected reservoirs. The model involves six (or ten) Zeeman nuclear reservoirs mutually coupled by nuclear-nuclear dipole interactions and coupled to electron spins by hyperfine interactions. When the electronic line is saturated, different nuclear temperatures appear in the molecule. These temperatures have been calculated as a function of the magnetic field orientation against the crystallographic axes. Experimental results are correctly reproduced. A quantitative agreement is obtained for the anisotropy of total polarization. The calculation also shows that, in certain directions, positive and negative spin temperatures simultaneously appear, that explains the complex shape of the signals observed. Nuclear relaxation processes involving two electron spins of the same exchange chain are taken into account for the calculation. The different possible chain directions (a, a+c, or c vectors) were envisaged. Only the c-vector hypothesis succeeded in interpreting experimental results