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Fermi surfaces of the topological semimetal CaSn$_{3}$ probed through de Haas van Alphen oscillations

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arxiv 2103.08039 v1 pith:LGWPDSZO submitted 2021-03-14 cond-mat.supr-con

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keywords topologicalcasnoscillationsfermisurfacestime-reversal-invariantalphenhaas
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In the search of topological superconductors, nailing down the Fermiology of the normal state is as crucial a prerequisite as unraveling the superconducting pairing symmetry. In particular, the number of time-reversal-invariant momenta in the Brillouin zone enclosed by Fermi surfaces is closely linked to the topological class of time-reversal-invariant systems, and can experimentally be investigated. We report here a detailed study of de Haas van Alphen quantum oscillations in single crystals of the topological semimetal CaSn$_{3}$ with torque magnetometry in high magnetic fields up to 35 T. In conjunction with density functional theory based calculations, the observed quantum oscillations frequencies indicate that the Fermi surfaces of CaSn$_{3}$ enclose an odd number of time-reversal-invariant momenta, satisfying one of the proposed criteria to realize topological superconductivity. Nonzero Berry phases extracted from the magnetic oscillations also support the nontrivial topological nature of CaSn$_{3}$.

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