Inelastic quantum transport and peierls-like mechanism in carbon nanotubes.
We report on a theoretical study of inelastic quantum transport in (3m,0) carbon nanotubes. By using a many-body description of the electron-phonon interaction in Fock space, a novel mechanism involving optical phonon emission (absorption) is shown to induce an unprecedented energy-gap opening at half the phonon energy, variant Planck's over 2piomega0/2, above (below) the charge neutrality point. This mechanism, which is prevented by Pauli blocking at low bias voltages, is activated at bias voltages on the order of variant Planck's over 2piomega0.
Foa Torres
Luis E F
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CEA/DSM/DRFMC/SPSMS/GT, 17 avenue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble, France.
Roche
Stephan
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