Low Energy Properties ofCarbon Nanotubes
- 2 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 78 (22) , 4245-4248
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.78.4245
Abstract
According to band theory, an ideal undoped carbon nanotube is metallic. We show that the electron-electron interaction causes it to become Mott insulating with a spin gap. More interestingly, upon doping it develops superconducting fluctuations.
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