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Investigations of the Fermi surface via the electron momentum distribution reconstructed from either angular correlation of annihilation radiation (or Compton scattering) experimental spectra are presented. The basis of these experiments…
Measurements of the two dimensional angular correlation of the electron-positron annihilation radiation have been done in the past to detect the momentum spin density and the Fermi surface. We point out that the momentum spin density and…
Electron-positron momentum densities in Y, reconstructed from two-dimensional angular correlation of annihilation radiation spectra, are compared with the theoretical predictions of fully-relativistic augmented plane-wave calculations.…
Compton scattering is a well-established technique that can provide detailed information about electronic states in solids. Making use of the principle of tomography, it is possible to determine the Fermi surface from sets of…
The Fermi surface topology in the two-dimensional Hubbard model is particularly relevant for the high-temperature superconductors, whereas its theoretical research encounters with the difficulty of the analytical continuation problem. To…
Fermi surfaces, three-dimensional (3D) abstract interfaces that define the occupied energies of electrons in a solid, are important for characterizing and predicting the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of crystalline…
We have carried out first principles all-electron calculations of the (001)-projected 2D electron momentum density and the directional Compton profiles along the [100], [001] and [110] directions in the Fe-based superconductor LaOFeAs…
In this paper we present detailed theoretical analysis of the frequency and/or magnetic field dependence of the surface impedance of a metal at the anomalous skin effect. We calculate the surface impedance in the presence of a magnetic…
For a single crystal of TmGa3, two-dimensional angular correlation of positron annihilation radiation spectra were measured and subjected to a deconvolution algorithm based on the Van Citter iterative method. The three-dimensional…
A simultaneous analysis of high-resolution directional Compton profiles and two-dimensional angular correlation of positron annihilation experimental data has been performed by studying both a directional anisotropy of measured spectra and…
We have observed the bulk Fermi surface (FS) in an overdoped ($x$=0.3) single crystal of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ by using Compton scattering. A two-dimensional (2D) momentum density reconstruction from measured Compton profiles yields a…
Projected momentum distributions of electrons, i.e. Compton profiles above the topmost atomic layer have recently become experimentally accessible by kinetic electron emission in grazing-incidence scattering of atoms at atomically flat…
We present three-dimensional (3D) electron-positron momentum densities in Mg and Cd, reconstructed from 2D angular correlation of annihilation radiation data. By folding densities from the extended momentum space into the first Brillouin…
The "density-density" correlation function of conduction electrons in metal is investigated. It is shown, that the asymptotic behaviour of the CF depends on the shape and the local geometry of the Fermi surface. In particular, the exponent…
We present a novel technique for enhancing Fermi surface (FS) signatures in the 2D distribution obtained after the 3D momentum density in a crystal is projected along a specific direction in momentum space. These results are useful for…
Compton scattering is one of the few spectroscopies which directly probes the ground state momentum density in materials. Recent progress in synchrotron light sources has brought a renewed interest in the technique as a tool for…
The precision of experimental data and analysis techniques is a key feature of any discovery attempt. A striking example is the proton radius puzzle where the accuracy of the spectroscopy of muonic atoms challenges traditional electron…
Smearing techniques are widely used in first-principles calculations of metallic and magnetic materials, where they improve the accuracy of Brillouin zone sampling and lessen the impact of level-crossing instabilities. Smearing introduces a…
The Fermi surface topology plays an important role in the macroscopic properties of metals. It can be particularly sensitive to electron correlation, which appears to be especially significant for the weak itinerant ferromagnet ZrZn$_{2}$.…
The bulk Fermi surface in an overdoped ($x = 0.3$) single crystal of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ has been observed by using x-ray Compton scattering. This momentum density technique also provides a powerful tool for directly seeing what the…