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Nuclear magnetism in the second layer of 3He films on graphite has been studied as a function of density in the zero-field limit at temperatures down to 300 µK. Total surface coverages in this study ranged from 20 atoms/nm2 (the lowest coverage at which the effective exchange parameter turns ferromagnetic) through the two-phase region (ending at about 24 atoms/nm2) and into the single-phase imcommensurate solid region up to 31.2 atoms/nm2. The surface layers were studied using both pulsed and cw NMR measured with our SQUID NMR system in magnetic fields of 500 µT and lower. As the surface density continues to increase in the single-phase region, the exchange constant decreases consistently with a picture of steric hindrance impeding ferromagnetic exchange. Several different observational features scale with this inferred exchange: low-field magnetization, NMR frequency shift, and the temperature of onset of significant magnetization.
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Zhang, J., White, K.S., Gould, C.M. et al. SQUID NMR Studies of the Second Layer of 3He at High Density. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 134, 103–108 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOLT.0000012542.44403.91
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOLT.0000012542.44403.91