Effects of symmetry crossover in quantum transport in graphene and nanotubes.
A brief review is given here on transport properties of carbon nanotubes mainly from a theoretical point of view. The topics include an effective-mass description of electronic states and the absence of backscattering and the presence of a perfectly conducting channel except for scatterers with a potential range smaller than the lattice constant. The dynamical conductivity in the presence of a perfect channel and effects of symmetry crossover are also discussed.
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Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. ando@phys.titech.ac.jp