  Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is capable of boosting signals in nuclear
magnetic resonance by orders of magnitude by creating out-of-equilibrium
nuclear spin polarization. The diffusion of nuclear spin polarization in the
vicinity of paramagnetic dopants is a crucial step for DNP and remains yet not
well understood. In this Letter, we show that the polarization of the electron
spin controls the rate of proton spin diffusion in a DNP sample at 1.2 K and 7
T; at increasingly high electron polarization, spin diffusion vanishes. We
rationalize our results using a 2 nucleus - 1 electron model and Lindblad s
Master equation, which generalizes preexisting models in the literature and
qualitatively accounts for the experimental observed spin diffusion dynamics.
