The spin-lattice relaxation has been measured in the two lowest Kramers doublets of Dy 3+ ions in yttrium ethyl sulphate. For each doublet the results appear to be consistent with relaxation via other thermally accessible levels by the two-phonon resonance process.
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J. C. Gill (1963) studied this question.
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