Band Structure and Fermi Surface of White Tin as Derived from de Haas-van Alphen Data

Abstract

A semiempirical local pseudopotential model for the band structure and Fermi surface of white tin is generated using extensive de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) extremal areas for the tin Fermi surface. The effects of spin-orbit interactions are included as a perturbation on the model Hamiltonian. Quantitative as well as qualitative agreement between the model and all aspects of the dHvA data is obtained. The quantitative agreement of the model with several other experiments is very good and is discussed in detail.