Disruption of quantum oscillations by an incommensurate charge density wave
Disruption of quantum oscillations by an incommensurate charge density wave
Because a material with an incommensurate charge density wave (ICDW) is only quasi-periodic, Bloch's theorem does not apply and there is no sharply defined Fermi surface. We will show that, as a consequence, there are no quantum oscillations which are truly periodic functions of $1/B$ (where $ B$ is the …