2009/04/15 by Z. L. Guo, Zhenyu Guo, Zhirui Gong +5
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #FOS: Physical sciences #Fullerene Chemistry and Applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Nanotechnology research and applications #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.2231
10 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2009/04/15 · arxiv created 2009/04/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study quantum optical properties of the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) by introducing the effective interaction between the quantized electromagnetic field and the confined electrons in the SWCNT. Our purpose is to explore the quantum natures of electron transport in the SWCNT by probing its various quantum optical properties relevant to quantum coherence, such as the interference of the scattered and emitted photons, and the bunching and anti-bunching of photons which are characterized by the higher order coherence functions. In the strong field limit, we study the interband Rabi oscillation of electrons driven by a classical light. We also investigate the possible lasing mechanism in superradiation of coherent electrons in a SWCNT driven by a light pump or electron injection, which generate electron population inversion in the higher energy-band of SWCNT.