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    The document summarizes experimental methods to determine the Fermi surface, including cyclotron resonance and the de Haas-van Alphen effect. It discusses how cyclotron resonance describes electron dynamics in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect relies on the interplay between the Fermi surface and orbital quantization in a magnetic field. It also explains Onsager's theory of semiclassical quantization of orbits in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect can be used to map out extremal areas of the Fermi surface.

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    The document summarizes experimental methods to determine the Fermi surface, including cyclotron resonance and the de Haas-van Alphen effect. It discusses how cyclotron resonance describes electron dynamics in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect relies on the interplay between the Fermi surface and orbital quantization in a magnetic field. It also explains Onsager's theory of semiclassical quantization of orbits in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect can be used to map out extremal areas of the Fermi surface.

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    The document summarizes experimental methods to determine the Fermi surface, including cyclotron resonance and the de Haas-van Alphen effect. It discusses how cyclotron resonance describes electron dynamics in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect relies on the interplay between the Fermi surface and orbital quantization in a magnetic field. It also explains Onsager's theory of semiclassical quantization of orbits in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect can be used to map out extremal areas of the Fermi surface.

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    The document summarizes experimental methods to determine the Fermi surface, including cyclotron resonance and the de Haas-van Alphen effect. It discusses how cyclotron resonance describes electron dynamics in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect relies on the interplay between the Fermi surface and orbital quantization in a magnetic field. It also explains Onsager's theory of semiclassical quantization of orbits in a magnetic field and how the dHvA effect can be used to map out extremal areas of the Fermi surface.

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    Condensed Matter Physics

    Assignment - 4
    Experimental methods to determine
    Fermi surface
    Presented by : Manjubala
    Enrollmeny no. : 2021IMSBPH009
    Integrated MSc BEd / sem-2

    Submitted to : Dr. Neeraj Panwar

    Central University of Rajasthan


    Fermi Surface
    • The Fermi surface is the surface in reciprocal space
    which separates occupied from unoccupied electron
    states at zero temperature

    • The shape of the Fermi surface is derived from the


    periodicity and symmetry of the crystalline lattice
    and from the occupation of electronic energy bands.
    1. Cyclotron Resonance
    • The basic equation of motion
    describing the dynamics in a
    magnetic field is
    https://images.app.goo.gl/T6yGZQDjc1rsZJxw5
    2. De Haas van Alphen Effect
    • The dHvA effect is caused when the Landau levels cross the Fermi energy as the
    magnetic field is increased. It provides a powerful tool for determining the
    topology of the Fermi surface, the cyclotron effective mass m*c and the scattering
    lifetime τ of the conduction electron.
    • It relies on the interplay between the Fermi surface and orbital quantization in a
    magnetic field. This interplay is only visible under conditions that require
    significant experimental efforts: very low temperatures (∼1 K or less), very large
    magnetic fields (∼10 T or more), and for very pure materials, typically with mean
    free paths ∼1000 Å or longer.

    • These efforts are rewarded with precise information about both the Fermi surface
    geometry and the thermodynamic effective masses.
    Onsager theory: Semiclassical quantization of
    orbits in a magnetic field
    • When a magnetic field B is applied along the z axis, the electron
    motion in this direction is unaffected by this field, but in the (x, y)
    plane the Lorentz force induces a circular motion of the electrons. The
    Lorentz force causes a representative point in k-space to rotate in the
    (kx, ky) plane with frequency

    where –e is the charge of electron.


    • The dHvA phenomenon was explained by Landau as a direct consequence of the quantization of
    closed electronic orbits in a magnetic field and thus as a direct observational manifestation of a
    purely quantum mechanics.

    • The phenomenon became of even greater interest and importance when Onsager pointed out that
    the change in 1/B through a single period of oscillation was determined by the remarkably simple
    relation,

    • Where P is the period (Gauss-1) of the dHvA oscillation in 1/B, F is the dHvA frequency (Gauss), and
    Se is any extremal cross-sectional area of the Fermi surface in a plane normal to the magnetic field.
    • Since altering the magnetic field direction brings different
    extremal areas into play, all extremal areas of the Fermi surface
    can be mapped out.

    • When there are two extremal cross-sectional area of the Fermi


    surface in a plane normal to the magnetic field and these two
    periods are nearly equal, a beat
    phenomenon of the two periods will be
    observed from which each period must
    be disentangled through the analysis of
    the Fourier transform.
    Refrences
    • Sciencedirect

    • Introduction to Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel

    • Solid State Physics by Ashcroft and Mermin

    • Elementary Solid State Physics by M. Ali Omar

    • Google
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