An exquisitely sensitive technique shows that a magnetic field only a few hundred times greater than Earth's can bring an exotic phase of matter known as a quantum spin liquid to an ordered magnetic state. See Letter p.612
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Rosenbaum, T. Transitions on triangles. Nature 471, 587–588 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471587a
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