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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 7: Fluctuations, Noise, Magnetotransport, and Related Topics
TT 7.4: Talk
Monday, September 5, 2022, 15:45–16:00, H23
Theory of difference frequency quantum oscillations — •Valentin Leeb1 and Johannes Knolle1, 2,3 — 1Department of Physics TQM, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany — 2Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), 80799 Munich, Germany — 3Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Quantum oscillations (QO) describe the periodic variation of physical observables as a function of inverse magnetic field in metals. The Onsager relation connects the basic QO frequencies with the extremal areas of closed Fermi surface pockets, and the theory of magnetic breakdown explains the observation of sums of QO frequencies at high magnetic fields. Here we develop a quantitative theory of difference frequency QOs in metals with multiple Fermi pockets with parabolic or linearly dispersing excitations. We show that a non-linear interband coupling, e.g. in the form of interband impurity scattering, can give rise to otherwise forbidden QO frequencies which can persist to much higher temperatures compared to the basis frequencies. We discuss the experimental implications of our findings, for example, for materials with multifold fermion excitations.