Direct observation of the multisheet Fermi surface in the strongly correlated transition metal compound ZrZn2

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Mar 12;92(10):107003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.107003. Epub 2004 Mar 12.

Abstract

The existence of flat areas of a Fermi surface (FS), predicted by electronic structure calculations and used in models of both magnetically mediated and phonon-mediated Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov superconducting states, is reported in the paramagnetic phase of the ferromagnetic superconductor ZrZn2 using positron annihilation. The strongly mass-renormalized FS sheet, dominating the Fermi level density of states, is seen for the first time. The delocalization of the magnetization is studied using measured and calculated magnetic Compton profiles.