Molybdenum: Band Structure, Fermi Surface, and Spin-Orbit Interaction

Abstract
The nonrelativistic energy bands of bcc Mo are calculated by the renormalized-atom method and the Fermi surface is obtained using an interpolated band structure. The de Haas-van Alphen data for the neck orbit of the electron jack and the electron lens are used to derive, for the crystal, a spin-orbit parameter of 0.0075 Ry, approximately equal to the atomic spin-orbit parameter.