de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Fermi Surface of the Ordered Alloy YZn
- 15 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 8 (8), 3590-3594
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.8.3590
Abstract
Observations of the de Haas-van Alphen effect in the ordered alloy (-brass, or CsCl structure) reveal the existence of a small spherical pocket of carriers, together with an open sheet. There is at this time no satisfactory theoretical model to explain these results. An augmented-plane-wave (APW) calculation predicts a Fermi surface which is topologically inconsistent with the experimental results. There is some degree of agreement with the nearly-free-electron model, which is however of doubtful validity when yttrium is present. Possible modifications to the APW model are discussed.
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