In the recent paper [1], a new method based on measuring a temperature correction to a quantum-oscillation frequency was proposed to study an energy-band dispersion of charge carriers in small Fermi surface (FS) pockets of crystals. To illustrate their approach, Guo et al. [1] applied it to a number of materials and, in particular, to the multiband metal LaRhIn5 which, apart from high-frequency oscillations associated with a large FS, also exhibits the oscillations with the low frequency F≈7 T. Although the method of Ref. [1] really detects charge carriers with a linear dispersion, it does not distinguish between the carriers near a Dirac point and near a nodal line, since all such quasiparticles disperse linearly. Here we ask what is the nature of the carriers associated with the frequency F in LaRhIn5 and call attention to the puzzling origin of this frequency.
@article{arxiv.2303.08762,
title = {Low-frequency quantum oscillations in LaRhIn$_5$: Dirac point or nodal line?},
author = {G. P. Mikitik and Yu. V. Sharlai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08762},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This is matters arising from C. Guo et al. Nature Communications 12, 6213 (2021); 6 pages, 2 figures