Quasi-one-dimensional electron gas bound to a helium-coated nanotube
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-03-29 v1
Abstract
A much-studied system is the quasi-2D electron gas in image-potential bound states at the surface of helium and hydrogen. In this paper, we report on an analogous quasi-1D system: electrons bound by image-like polarization forces to the surface of a helium-coated carbon nanotube. The potential is computed from an electron-helium pseudopotential, plus a dynamic image term evaluated from a semi-classical model of the nanotube's response function. Predictions are made for the bound states and potential many-body properties of this novel electron gas for a specific choice of tube radius and film thickness.
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@article{arxiv.1512.08783,
title = {Quasi-one-dimensional electron gas bound to a helium-coated nanotube},
author = {Michael Liebrecht and Adrian Del Maestro and Milton W. Cole},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08783},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
To appear in the Quantum Fluids and Solids 2015 JLTP conference proceedings