Quantized Adiabatic Charge Transport in a Carbon Nanotube

2001/05/31 by V. I. Talyanskii, Dmitry S. Novikov, Dmitry Novikov +4 · 56 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Carbon nanotube #Charge (physics) #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Electron #Electron transport chain #Graphene research and applications #Luttinger liquid #Materials science #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Nanotechnology #Nanotube #Physics #Quantization (signal processing) #Quantum mechanics #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.87.276802

published in Physical Review Letters 87(27), 276802 (American Physical Society) · 5 pages, 2 figures

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Abstract

The coupling of a semimetallic carbon nanotube to a surface acoustic wave (SAW) is proposed as a vehicle to realize quantized adiabatic charge transport. We demonstrate that electron backscattering from a periodic SAW potential can be used to induce a miniband spectrum at energies near the Fermi level. Within the framework of Luttinger liquid theory, electron interaction is shown to enhance minigaps and thereby improve current quantization.

Citations

• Single-shell carbon nanotubes of 1-nm diameter
• Disorder, Pseudospins, and Backscattering in Carbon Nanotubes

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