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Intrinsic Coulomb blockade in multi-wall carbon nanotubes

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes provide a new class of molecular wires that display new and exciting mesoscopic transport properties. We provide a detailed theoretical description for transport in multi-wall nanotubes, where both disorder and strong interactions are important. The interplay of both aspects leads to a particularly effective intrinsic Coulomb blockade for tunneling. The relation to recent experiments is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109336,
  title  = {Intrinsic Coulomb blockade in multi-wall carbon nanotubes},
  author = {R. Egger and A. O. Gogolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109336},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, incl 2 figs, for: Special issue "Transport in Molecular Wires" in Chemical Physics, ed. by P. Hanggi, M. Ratner, S. Yaliraki