Continuous evolution of the Fermi surface of CeRu2Si2 across the metamagnetic transition -: art. no. 026401

We present new, high resolution Hall effect and magnetoresistance measurements across the metamagnetic transition in the heavy fermion compound CeRu2Si2. The results, and ambiguities in the interpretation of de Haas-van Alphen data, force us to rethink the notion that the transition is accompanied by an abrupt f-electron localization. Instead, we explain our data assuming a continuous evolution of the Fermi surface, which sees one of the spin-split sheets of the heaviest surface shrink to a point.