The Fermi surface of mercury from an APW interpolation

Abstract
Muffin tin parameters are used in the APW scheme to fit recent accurate de Haas-van Alphen data. The interpolated Fermi surface is in good agreement with magneto-acoustic and magnetoresistance data. A form factor, deduced from the fitted muffin tin parameters, is proposed which yields, when used in Ziman's theoretical expressions for the specific resistivity of the liquid and its volume derivative, excellent agreement with the experimental values.