Extreme Fermi surface smearing in a maximally disordered concentrated solid solution

Abstract

We show that the Fermi surface can survive the presence of extreme compositional disorder in the equiatomic alloy Ni${}_{0.25}$Fe${}_{0.25}$Co${}_{0.25}$Cr${}_{0.25}$. Our high-resolution Compton scattering experiments reveal a Fermi surface which is smeared across a significant fraction of the Brillouin zone (up to 40\% of $\frac{2\pi }{a}$). The extent of this smearing and its variation on and between different sheets of the Fermi surface has been determined, and estimates of the electron mean-free-path and residual resistivity have been made by connecting this smearing with the coherence length of the quasiparticle states.

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