Manifestation of Berry’s Phase in Metal Physics
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It is shown that in crystals the semiclassical quantization condition for energy levels of electrons in the magnetic field depends on Berry’s phase. When the electron orbit links to the band-contact line of the metal (i.e., surrounds it), Berry’s phase is nonzero and the quantization condition differs from that commonly used. This result is closely analogous to the Aharonov-Bohm’s effect provided the bandcontact line plays the role of the infinitely thin “solenoid” with the fixed “magnetic flux.” The predicted effect must manifest itself in oscillation phenomena for a number of metals. [S0031-9007(99)08623-8]
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