Field Emission from Luttinger Liquids and Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
- 3 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 87 (25) , 256806
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.256806
Abstract
We develop a theory for the field emission effect in Luttinger liquids and single-wall carbon nanotubes at the level of the energy resolved current distribution. We generalize Fowler-Nordheim relations. Just below the Fermi edge, we find a power-law vanishing current distribution with the density of states exponent. The current distribution above the Fermi edge owes its existence to a peculiar interplay of interactions and correlated tunneling. It displays a nontrivial power-law divergence just above the Fermi energy.Keywords
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