Inelastic transport in vibrating disordered carbon nanotubes: scattering times and temperature-dependent decoherence effects.
By using an order N quantum transport methodology, and treating on the same footing static and dynamical disorders, we report on the theoretical exploration of quantum interferences tuned by electron-phonon mediated decoherence mechanisms in disordered carbon nanotubes (with length up to 10 microm). This allows the extraction of inelastic scattering times together with temperature-dependent coherence lengths, which favorably compare with available experimental data at a quantitative level, and clarify the role of localization phenomena up to room temperature.
Ishii
Hiroyuki
H
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Roche
Stephan
S
Kobayashi
Nobuhiko
N
Hirose
Kenji
K