Colossal paramagnetic moments in metallic carbon nanotori.
Carbon nanostructures with unusually large paramagnetic moments have been discovered in a theoretical study of the electronic and magnetic properties of carbon nanotubes bent into toroids. Specifically, nanotori formed from metallic nanotubes with lambda(F) = 3T, where lambda(F) is the Fermi wavelength and T the translation vector of the nanotube, exhibit giant paramagnetic moments at selected radii ("magic radii"), while the ones with lambda(F) = T are paramagnetic at any radius. The large paramagnetic moment is due to the interplay between the toroidal geometry and the ballistic motion of the pi electrons in the metallic nanotube.
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Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA.
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