Properties of electrons in bismuth

The origin of the “high temperature” oscillations of kinetic coefficients of bismuth in the magnetic field

“…1). The spin splitting of electron Landau levels is approximately equal to the orbital one (they differ by less than 10%) for a given direction of the field H. Therefore, as mentioned above, at H > 27 kOe only the 0-electron Landau subband is below the Fermi level [14,19]. The minima at fields H E 34 and 47.5 kOe correspond to the hole SdH oscillations caused by the intersection of the Fermi level with the hole Landau subbands 7' and 6* (the spin splitting of hole Landau levels is about zero) [19].…”

“…3b). Their period was approximately half of the period of hole SdH oscillations in the quasiclassic range of magnetic field [14]. We obtained an overlap energy ep 32 meV, when comparing the observed oscillations with the hole HTO given by equation (3).…”

A Pseudopotential Band Structure Calculation of Bismuth, Antimony, and Their Alloys

“…Falicov and Lin studied the lifting of accidental degeneracy of valence and conduction bands along TW direction by means of perturbation theory and got a splitting of 0.02 Hartree units between the T a b l e 4 Effective masses for Bi and Sb (in me). The experimental valnes for Bi electrons are taken from [13], for Bi holes from [16], and for Sb electrons from [17,18,191 levels which terminate in TA(2) and TG(3). I n our calculation there is a energy difference of the same order between the levels which terminate in Ti(2) and Tg(3).…”

Magnetoplasma Waves in Bismuth and Semimetallic BiSb Alloys at Microwave Frequencies 9 to 100 GHz

“…These parameters reproduce accurately the cyclotron masses of [14], using the relations given in [15], and yield the mass density functions in Table 1.…”