V. Cannella and J. A. Mydosh measured low-field magnetic susceptibility of gold-iron alloys using a mutual inductance bridge. Moving samples into and out of the pickup arrangement separated their signal from the background. Cooling revealed sharp susceptibility cusps; changing concentration, sample shape and applied magnetic field tested their interpretation. Larger fields rounded the peaks. Their 1972 paper interpreted low-concentration ordering in antiferromagnetic terms: the cusp alone did not demonstrate Parisi's later theory.[ref]
This experiment measures a response to a small applied perturbation, rather than directly photographing frozen spins. Comparing field strengths is essential because the probing magnetic field itself changes the response.[ref]

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