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We investigated low energy nuclear spin excitations in the layered compound CoCl$_2$ by high resolution back-scattering neutron spectroscopy. We detected inelastic peaks at $E = 1.34 \pm 0.03$ $\mu$eV on both energy loss and energy sides of…
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We use inelastic neutron scattering to study the crystalline electric field (CEF) excitations of Ce$^{3+}$ in CeFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$($x=0,0.16$). For nonsuperconducting CeFeAsO, the Ce CEF levels have three magnetic doublets in the…
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The ground-state spin arrangement and the bipartite entanglement within Cu$^{2+}$-Cu$^{2+}$ dimers across the magnetization process of the 4f-3d heterometallic coordination polymer [{Dy(hfac)$_2$(CH$_3$OH)}$_2${Cu(dmg)(Hdmg)}$_2$]$_n$…
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