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The ordering of nuclear spins takes place at extremely low temperatures because of the weakness of the interactions between their magnetic moments. Neutron scattering is the traditional and unique method to study the collective ordering of magnetic moments. The combination of the problem (nuclear spin ordering) and the method (neutron scattering) leads to new insight into the many body behaviour of the nuclear spin system and into some of the long standing general questions of the cooperative behaviour of magnetic systems. We describe neutron scattering studies on the nuclear spin systems in Cu and Ag at nano- and subnanokelvin temperatures as an example of a very successful international collaboration based on the work performed at the Low Temperature Laboratory, in the Helsinki University of Technology in Otaniemi. The collaboration was initiated by Olli V. Lounasmaa.
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Steiner, M. Neutron Scattering and Ordering of Nuclear Spins. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 135, 545–578 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOLT.0000029511.67430.51
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