But the three coils shown in the patents have different requirements and are not connected as depicted in your diagrams.
These bucking coils produce the same flux pattern between them even when they are not grounded at the midpoint and are completely separated galvanically and having 4 terminals. I am mystified by the axial RF drive coil. If my reasoning is correct and the nuclear dipoles are aligned along the magnetization axis then you need cross coupling to drive them.
Yes but as we can see from the graph above, at 0.5T, not all of the domain dipoles are aligned along the magnetization axis. Also, any bucking fields from two segmented coaxial coils will tend to produce a radial flux (perpendicular to the fuel rod's major axis). Note that all the nuclei are already precessing but at random phases so the net effect is zero. To pump them with RF you need to access their off-axis component that is rotating at their resonant frequency, not their on-axis component which is constant. They can then absorb energy over a number of cycles that tries to speed up the precession process, creating the torque to ultimately flip them through the desired angle. The on-axis RF magnetic field does not do this.
Yes, the on-axis parallel field cannot pump the nuclei ...but the external field that is parallel to the rod's axis is not parallel to the unaligned domain dipoles. Ask yourself a question: At what value of the external field, the integral of the product of domain dipole magnitudes * sin θ, occurs? (where θ denotes the angles between the domain dipoles and the external field). Don't disregard the results from this Fe NMR paper, that concludes that domains first grow and later they rotate their magnetization vectors, as the external field increases. Also I do wonder whether the patents reflect someone's aspirations rather than an accomplished and verified experiment.
I wonder, too. There is an article by Renaud de la Taille in "Science et Vie" nr.700 March 1976 ( pages 42-45 ), that features an actually built device...allegedly functioning.
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