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Quantized magnetic moment at the edge of a single-walled carbon nanotube

2010/07/07 by Horng-Tay Jeng, Horng‐Tay Jeng, Jeng, Horng-Tay +5
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1007.1050

5 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2010/07/07 · openalex publication_date 2010/07/07 · arxiv updated 2010/07/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigate many-body effects near the edge of a single-walled carbon nanotube and find it turns magnetic with quantized edge moment solely depends on the chiral vector, i.e. the topology of the carbon nanotube. The distribution of the edge moment reveals an approximate supersymmetry even in a realistic model. Our findings demonstrate crucial importance of the interplay between the electronic correlation and the edge morphology. The edge moment provides an excellent candidate for nanomagnet farbrication which has potential applications in biological and chemical detections, and in spintronics.

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