Observation of Hyperfine-Enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Cooling
- 21 October 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 21 (17), 1221-1223
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.21.1221
Abstract
We point out the suitability of rare-earth ions in singlet ground states for the production of very low temperatures by means of nuclear adiabatic demagnetization. We have observed nuclear cooling in PrBi from an initial temperature of 0.026°K to a final temperature of 0.01°K.Keywords
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