arXiv · cond-mat/0609690
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids and Coulomb blockade in multiwall carbon nanotubes under pressure
Abstract
We report that the conductance of macroscopic multiwall nanotube (MWNT) bundles under pressure shows power laws in temperature and voltage, as corresponding to a network of bulk-bulk connected Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids (LL). Contrary to individual MWNT, where the observed power laws are attributed to Coulomb blockade, the measured ratio for the end and bulk obtained exponents, ~2.4, can only be accounted for by LL theory. At temperatures characteristic of interband separation, it increases due to thermal population of the conducting sheets unoccupied bands.
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M. Monteverde, M. Nunez-Regueiro, G. Garbarino, C. Acha, X. Jing, L. Lu, Z. W. Pan, S. S. Xie, J. Souletie, R. Egger. 2006-09-27. Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids and Coulomb blockade in multiwall carbon nanotubes under pressure. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.97.176401
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