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Theory of quantum oscillations in quasicrystals: Quantizing spiral Fermi surfaces

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Cooper, NR 

Abstract

We show that electronic materials with disallowed rotational symmetries that enforce quasiperiodic order can exhibit quantum oscillations and that these are generically associated with exotic "spiral Fermi surfaces." These Fermi surfaces are self-intersecting, and characterized by a winding number of their surface tangent---a topological invariant---that is larger than one. We compute the nature of the quantum oscillations in two experimentally relevant settings which give rise to spiral Fermi surfaces: a "nearly-free-electron" quasicrystal, and \ang{30} twisted bilayer graphene.

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Keywords

cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.dis-nn, cond-mat.str-el, quant-ph

Journal Title

Physical Review B

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Journal ISSN

2469-9950
2469-9969

Volume Title

100

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K030094/1)
Simons Foundation (511029)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P034616/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P009565/1)
EPSRC grants EP/K030094/1, EP/P034616/1 and EP/P009565/1, and a Simons Investigator award of the Simons Foundation