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Instability of capacitance mode in multi-walled nanotubes

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Conditions for intra and inter layer Coulomb interactions in multi-walled carbon nanotubes are derived from stability of capacitance excitations. It is pointed out, supposing the stability conditions are not satisfied, that the system has unstable modes which correspond to a charge transfer between layers or charge density oscillation in each layer depending on zero mode or non-zero modes. It is argued that the stability conditions can be broken when the vacuum polarization processes due to the massive bands are taken into account.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207192,
  title  = {Instability of capacitance mode in multi-walled nanotubes},
  author = {K. Sasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207192},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures

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