Slow oscillations of in-plane magnetoresistance in strongly anisotropic quasi-two-dimensional rare-earth tritellurides

P. D. Grigoriev, A. A. Sinchenko, P. Lejay, O. Leynaud, V. N. Zverev, P. Monceau

Published 2015-04-23Version 1

Slow oscillations of the in-plane magnetoresistance are observed in the rare-earth tritellurides and proposed as an effective tool to determine the parameters of electronic structure in various strongly anisotropic quasi-two-dimensional compounds. These oscillations do not originate from the small Fermi surface pockets, as revealed usually by the Shubnikov-de-Haas oscillations, but from the entanglement of close frequencies due to a finite interlayer transfer integral $t_z$, which allows to estimate its value. For TbTe$_3$ and GdTe$_3$ we obtain the estimate $t_z\approx 1$ meV.