Supersymmetry in carbon nanotubes in a transverse magnetic field
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- 3 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 68 (15) , 155402
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.68.155402
Abstract
Electron properties of carbon nanotubes in a transverse magnetic field are studied using a model of a massless Dirac particle on a cylinder. The problem possesses supersymmetry which protects low-energy states and ensures stability of the metallic behavior in arbitrarily large fields. In metallic tubes we find suppression of the Fermi velocity at half-filling and enhancement of the density of states. In semiconducting tubes the energy gap is suppressed. These features qualitatively persist (although to a smaller degree) in the presence of electron interactions. The possibilities of experimental observation of these effects are discussed.Keywords
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