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The scattering of thermal neutrons provides us with an exceedingly powerful probe for studying condensed matter. This usefulness arises from the fact that thermal (300 K) neutrons have a wavelength λ ≃ 1.6 Å. This means that their energy and wavelength are comparable to those of the excitations in solids. In fact, neutron scattering has become almost the last word in determining spin orderings, spin-density distributions, and spin-wave dispersion relations. A detailed discussion of the experimental techniques employed in neutron scattering, with reference to the original papers, may be found in [8.1]
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White, R.M. (1983). Neutron Scattering. In: Quantum Theory of Magnetism. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02360-0_8
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