Quantum oscillations from `open' Fermi surface in quasi-one-dimensional lattices: Application to YBa2Cu3O6 cuprates, organic salts, ladder compounds, and related systems

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that quantum oscillations can originate from open Fermi surfaces in quasi-one-dimensional systems, challenging the traditional view that only closed Fermi surfaces produce such oscillations, and explains experimental observations in various materials.

Contribution

It introduces a real-space calculation method for SdHvA oscillations that accounts for open Fermi surfaces, expanding the understanding of quantum oscillations beyond classical paradigms.

Findings

Quantum oscillations can arise from open Fermi surfaces with real-space cyclotron orbits.

The method explains SdHvA oscillations in quasi-1D materials like cuprates and organic salts.

Results match experimental observations in diverse low-dimensional systems.

Abstract

According to the celebrated Onsagar-Lifshitz paradigm, the observation of Shubnikov de-Haas and de-Haas van Alphen (SdHvA) oscillations is an indication of the presence of `closed' orbit Fermi surface in the bulk. We present a real-space based calculation of SdHvA oscillations in generalized quasi-one-dimensional lattices by relaxing the quasi-classical approximations embedded in this decades old Onsagar-Lifshitz paradigm. We find that sizable quantum oscillation can arise from `open' Fermi surfaces as long as cyclotron orbits can form in real-space with finite, but not necessarily equal, electron hopping along both x- and y-directions. Our results quantitatively explain the puzzling emergence of SdHvA oscillation in various quasi-one-dimensional materials, including the chain state of YBa2Cu3O6 cuprates, organic materials, various ladder compounds, weakly coupled linear chains, or quantum wires, and other related systems.