Uniaxial strain dependence of the Fermi surface of tungsten

Abstract

The derivatives of five representative cross sectional areas of the Fermi surface of tungsten with respect to uniaxial stress and strain along the cube axes, are determined experimentally from simultaneous measurements of quantum oscillations in magnetostriction and torque, and also in sound velocity and torque. The results are resolved into two components, the dependence on volume-conserving tetragonal shear, and the dependence on isotropic dilation. The tetragonal shear dependence is found to be in generally good agreement with the results of KKR calculations based on a fit to the unstrained Fermi surface. The isotropic dilation dependence agrees well with hydrostatic pressure measurements; from these results, the volume derivatives of the scattering phase shifts are deduced. This work is the first step towards a point-by-point determination of the distortion of the Fermi surface of tungsten in a lattice subjected to an arbitrary homogeneous strain.