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Main Authors: Lim, Suzanne, Guo, Bowen, Turner, Abi, Buchanan, Charles, Baldwin, Andrew, Jones, Jonathan A.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10861
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author Lim, Suzanne
Guo, Bowen
Turner, Abi
Buchanan, Charles
Baldwin, Andrew
Jones, Jonathan A.
author_facet Lim, Suzanne
Guo, Bowen
Turner, Abi
Buchanan, Charles
Baldwin, Andrew
Jones, Jonathan A.
contents Controlling ensembles of weakly coupled spins typically requires computationally expensive multispin optimisations. We present a compact framework that enables control of weakly coupled spin systems (of any spin), but using RF pulses optimised for a single spin-1/2. We do this by explicitly creating a GRAPE pulse with fixed 'active' evolution times using single spin-1/2 methods, and pulsing on one spin at a time. By enforcing this form uniformly across offsets ('band-schematic' pulses),chemical shift and scalar coupling evolution of the entire system can be precisely controlled. We demonstrate the approach by constructing band-schematic pulses and a continuously irradiated joint INEPT (JINEPT) that achieves band-selective transfer $I_z \rightarrow 2I_zS_z$. The framework is implemented in the software Seedless, which both rapidly generates such pulses and analyses the schematic form of arbitrary pulses, enabling robust multi-spin control, without multi-spin optimisation.
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spellingShingle Multi-spin control from one-spin pulses
Lim, Suzanne
Guo, Bowen
Turner, Abi
Buchanan, Charles
Baldwin, Andrew
Jones, Jonathan A.
Quantum Physics
Controlling ensembles of weakly coupled spins typically requires computationally expensive multispin optimisations. We present a compact framework that enables control of weakly coupled spin systems (of any spin), but using RF pulses optimised for a single spin-1/2. We do this by explicitly creating a GRAPE pulse with fixed 'active' evolution times using single spin-1/2 methods, and pulsing on one spin at a time. By enforcing this form uniformly across offsets ('band-schematic' pulses),chemical shift and scalar coupling evolution of the entire system can be precisely controlled. We demonstrate the approach by constructing band-schematic pulses and a continuously irradiated joint INEPT (JINEPT) that achieves band-selective transfer $I_z \rightarrow 2I_zS_z$. The framework is implemented in the software Seedless, which both rapidly generates such pulses and analyses the schematic form of arbitrary pulses, enabling robust multi-spin control, without multi-spin optimisation.
title Multi-spin control from one-spin pulses
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10861