An effective model for carbon nanotubes

Single-wall carbon nanotubes with on-site interaction $U \ll t$ are studied by a controlled renormalization group method. When formulated as a system of $N_{f}$ flavors of interacting Dirac fermions, the effective model at generic filling resembles a set of quasi-1D Hubbard chains. For the undoped $(N_{y}, N_{y})$-armchair and the $(N_{x}, -N_{x})$-zigzag with $N_x=3n$, specific mappings to the 2-chain Hubbard model {\em at half filling} with effective interaction $u_{{\rm eff}}=U/N_{y}$ and $2U/N_{x}$ are found from this more general equivalence. The phase diagrams of the (3, 3)-armchair and the (6, -6)-zigzag at generic fillings are studied and compared as an example.