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T1 Relaxation & the BPP Minimum: Molecular Tumbling

Interactive Bloembergen-Purcell-Pound (BPP) simulator: tune the molecular tumbling correlation time and static field to watch spin-lattice (T1) relaxation speed up, hit its minimum near omega0*tauC=1, and slow down again.

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Every nucleus you flip with an RF pulse eventually relaxes back to thermal equilibrium along the static field — but how fast depends on how the molecules around it are tumbling. This simulator renders the Bloembergen-Purcell-Pound (BPP) picture of spin-lattice relaxation directly: a lattice of small nuclear dipoles reorients randomly at a correlation time τc you control, producing a fluctuating local field whose power at the Larmor frequency ω₀ sets the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T₁. Sweep τc or the static field B₀ and watch T₁ trace the classic V-shaped minimum where ω₀τc ≈ 1 — then fire an inversion pulse and watch the bulk magnetization arrow actually recover at the T₁ your settings predict, live readouts and a τc-vs-T₁ chart tracking every step.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive Bloembergen-Purcell-Pound simulator: tune the molecular tumbling correlation time and static field strength to watch spin-lattice (T1) relaxation trace its characteristic V-shaped minimum where the Larmor frequency matches the tumbling rate, then fire an inversion pulse and watch the magnetization recover at the predicted T1.

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