New insights on frequency combinations and 'forbidden frequencies' in the de Haas-van Alphen spectrum of κ-(ET)2Cu(SCN)2

J Phys Condens Matter. 2016 Jul 13;28(27):275702. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/27/275702. Epub 2016 May 23.

Abstract

de Haas-van Alphen oscillations of the organic metal κ-(ET)2Cu(SCN)2 have been measured up to 55 T at liquid helium temperatures. The Fermi surface of this charge transfer salt is a textbook example of a linear chain of orbits coupled by magnetic breakdown. Accordingly, the oscillation spectrum is composed of linear combinations of the frequencies linked to the α and magnetic breakdown-induced β orbits. The field and temperature dependence of all the observed Fourier components, in particular the 'forbidden frequency' [Formula: see text] which cannot correspond to a classical orbit, are quantitatively accounted for by analytical calculations based on a second order development of the free energy, i.e. beyond the first order Lifshitz-Kosevich formula.