Angular magnetostriction oscillations in layered conductors with multisheet Fermi surfaces

The dependence of the electrical conductivity of layered conductors with a quasi-two dimensional electron energy spectrum on the orientation of an external magnetic field is studied. The oscillatory dependence of the magnetostriction of conductors with a multisheet Fermi surface (FS) on the angle of inclination of a strong magnetic field to the layers is found to contain valuable information on the shape of the FS. In particular, the period of the oscillations can be used to determine the magnitude of the corrugation in a plane sheet of the Fermi surface.