arXiv · cond-mat/9708054
Coulomb Interactions and Mesoscopic Effects in Carbon Nanotubes
Abstract
We argue that long-range Coulomb forces convert an isolated (N,N) armchair carbon nanotube into a strongly-renormalized *Luttinger liquid*. At high temperatures, we find anomalous temperature dependences for the interaction and impurity contributions to the resistivity, and similar power-law dependences for the local tunneling density of states. At low temperatures, the nanotube exhibits spin-charge separation, visible as an extra energy scale in the discrete tunneling density of states (for which we give an analytic form), signaling a departure from the orthodox theory of Coulomb blockade.
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Charlie Kane, Leon Balents, Matthew Fisher. 1997-08-07. Coulomb Interactions and Mesoscopic Effects in Carbon Nanotubes. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.5086
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