Universal magnetoresistance of a quasi-two-dimensional conductor in perpendicular electric and parallel magnetic fields

Abstract

Some times ago, in the framework of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in the so-called [Formula: see text]-approximation, it was shown that perpendicular resistivity in quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) conductors can be impurity independent in a broad range of high parallel magnetic fields [A. G. Lebed and N. N. Bagmet, Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997) R8654]. In this paper, we demonstrate that this result is much more general than the Boltzmann kinetic equation in the [Formula: see text]-approximation and is valid in a pure Q2D metal at low frequencies of the electric field. The above-mentioned statement open possibilities to test the above discussed phenomenon in a number of Q2D organic, high-Tc, and some other Q2D superconductors in their metallic phases and gives a method to extract some important information about their Q2D Fermi surfaces.