Method to Reveal and Investigate Almost 2D Fermi Surfaces in Layered Conductors: Universal Resistivity in a Parallel Magnetic Field.

We suggested an original method to investigate the Fermi surfaces (FSs) in the quasi-two-dimensional conductors some time ago [A.G. Lebed and N.N. Bagmet, Phys. Rev. B 55, R8654 (1997)]. It was based on a consideration of a perpendicular conductivity in quasi-two-dimensional metals in parallel magnetic fields in the framework of the Boltzmann kinetic equation, where it was shown that the conductivity was independent on impurities. In this paper, we demonstrate that the above mentioned result is much more general than the kinetic equation and can be obtained even in a fully quantum mechanical case. We suggest to investigate this possible phenomenon in the quasi-two-dimensional organic, high- , and some others superconductors in a metallic phase to judge if the Fermi liquid picture is valid for them or not. If the Fermi liquid picture is valid, then study of the perpendicular resistivity in the rotated parallel magnetic field allows to extract important information about the two-dimensional Fermi surfaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]