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How many Raman-active vibrations do exist in carbon nanotubes?

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

In this paper we present the results on Raman-active modes calculation in achiral (n,n)(n,n) and (n,0)(n,0) carbon nanotubes (CNTs). vibrational spectra are derived as the eigenvalues of corresponding dynamical matrix at the Γ\Gamma-point of Brillouin zone. Diagonal components and αxy(=αyx)\alpha_{xy} (=\alpha_{yx}) are the only non-zero components of polarization tensor. Selection rules for Raman-active modes are determined by direct estimations of matrix elements responsible for the intensities of corresponding vibrational transitions. Few E2gE_{2g} modes can be non-Raman-active because of their ``fine'' vibrational structure. We claim that numbers of Raman-active modes for achiral CNTs are: 5 ((n,n)(n,n) and (n,0)(n,0), nn-even); 6 ((n,n)(n,n), nn-odd); 8 ((n,0)(n,0), nn-odd).

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212565,
  title  = {How many Raman-active vibrations do exist in carbon nanotubes?},
  author = {T. Yu. Astakhova and G. A. Vinogradov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212565},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

18 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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