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Experiment on Nuclear Ordering and Superconductivity in Lithium

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We have investigated lithium metal at ultra-low temperatures in order to study the self-organized ground states of the nuclear spin system and of the conduction electrons. Evidence for nuclear magnetic ordering was found: we observed irreversible behavior with respect to slow changes of the magnetic field at high nuclear polarizations in small fields. The low field NMR spectra also showed a distinguished low frequency anomaly at the same region. We propose a nontrivial phase diagram with an estimated critical spin temperature of (0.3±0.1)~μK at zero field. The lattice and electrons of a lithium sample were refrigerated down to 100 μK in attempts to detect the Meissner effect due to superconductivity, but no indication of such transition was observed.

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Juntunen, K.I., Tuoriniemi, J.T. Experiment on Nuclear Ordering and Superconductivity in Lithium. J Low Temp Phys 141, 235–293 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-005-8539-z

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