No experimental Fermi surface measurements have been reported or made on low-temperature martensitic lithium

Abstract

Elatresh et al. (1) (ECAHDB) claim that the low-temperature martensitic structure of lithium “is not the heretofore assigned 9R.” This is based on comparing results of Fermi surface calculations to de Haas–van Alphen (dHvA) data from Springford and coworkers (2, 3). We note that Springford’s group took extensive steps to preserve the body-centered-cubic (bcc) structure and to avoid the temperature-induced martensitic transition. Therefore, the conclusion that their dHvA data are “inconsistent with 9R” is unsurprising, and is in fact intentional. It appears that unsuccessful attempts were made long ago to perform dHvA experiments on lithium martensite (4). Obtaining dHvA … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: gjackland{at}ed.ac.uk. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1