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Strong anisotropy of electron-phonon interaction in NbP probed by magnetoacoustic quantum oscillations

Other Condensed Matter 2020-11-02 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

In this study, we report on the observation of de Haas-van Alphen-type quantum oscillations (QO) in the ultrasound velocity of NbP as well as `giant QO' in the ultrasound attenuation in pulsed magnetic fields. The difference of the QO amplitude for different acoustic modes reveals a strong anisotropy of the effective deformation potential, which we estimate to be as high as 9eV9\,\mathrm{eV} for certain parts of the Fermi surface. Furthermore, the natural filtering of QO frequencies and the tracing of the individual Landau levels to the quantum limit allows for a more detailed investigation of the Fermi surface of NbP as was previously achieved by means of analyzing QO observed in magnetization or electrical resistivity.

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@article{arxiv.2010.06530,
  title  = {Strong anisotropy of electron-phonon interaction in NbP probed by magnetoacoustic quantum oscillations},
  author = {Clemens Schindler and Denis Gorbunov and Sergei Zherlitsyn and Stanislaw Galeski and Marcus Schmidt and Jochen Wosnitza and Johannes Gooth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.06530},
  year   = {2020}
}

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