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. 2014 Sep 10;5:4822. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5822

Figure 1. Many-body correlations in the 29Si nuclear spin bath probed by a phosphorus donor electron spin.

Figure 1

(a) Due to the extended donor wavefunction, the P-donor electron spin (blue arrow) interacts with a bath of 29Si nuclear spins (magenta arrows) possessing various many-body correlations. (b) Topologically inequivalent connected diagrams (LCE diagrams) corresponding to different many-body correlations in the nuclear spin bath: (I) V2—second-order pairwise flip-flop diagram, (II–V) V4z—fourth-order diagonal interaction renormalized pairwise flip-flop diagrams. Here the nuclear spin operators Inline graphic are represented in turn by filled circles, empty circles or empty squares. The off-diagonal (diagonal) interaction terms are represented by wavy (dashed) lines. The solid arrows represent nuclear spin correlation functions between Inline graphic and Inline graphic (or Inline graphic) with the arrows indicating the direction of time propagation.