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We report low-temperature transport experiments on single-wall nanotubes with metallic leads of varying contact quality, ranging from weak tunneling to almost perfect transmission. In the weak tunneling regime, where Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesper Nygard , David H. Cobden

We study the gate voltage dependence of the linear conductance through a quantum dot coupled to one-dimensional leads. For interacting dot electrons but noninteracting leads Kondo physics implies broad plateau-like resonances. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Andergassen , T. Enss , V. Meden

Luttinger liquid theory describes one-dimensional electron systems in terms of non-interacting bosonic excitations. In this approximation thermal excitations are decoupled from the current flowing through a quantum wire, and the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 K. A. Matveev , A. V. Andreev

In this work, the correlation functions of a Luttinger liquid with a cluster of impurities around an origin obtained using the Non chiral bosonization technique (NCBT) are used to study two important physical phenomena, viz., conductance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-19 Joy Prakash Das , Girish S. Setlur

We study electronic transport through a one-dimensional, finite-length quantum wire of correlated electrons (Luttinger liquid) coupled at arbitrary position via tunnel barriers to two semi-infinite, one-dimensional as well as stripe-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Wächter , V. Meden , K. Schönhammer

We develop a detailed theory for spin transport in a one-dimensional quantum wire described by Luttinger liquid theory. A hydrodynamic description for the quantum wire is supplemented by boundary conditions taking into account the exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Leon Balents , Reinhold Egger

We present a technique to directly excite Luttinger liquid collective modes in carbon nanotubes at GHz frequencies. By modeling the nanotube as a nano-transmission line with distributed kinetic and magnetic inductance as well as distributed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Burke

We discuss the conductance of a Luttinger liquid interrupted by a quantum dot containing a single resonant level. Using bosonisation and re-fermionisation methods, we find a mapping to a Kondo-type problem which possesses a non-trivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Komnik , A. O. Gogolin

We study contact effects on electron transport across a molecular wire sandwiched between two semi-infinite (carbon) nanotube leads as a model for nanoelectrodes. Employing the Landauer scattering matrix approach we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Fagas , G. Cuniberti , K. Richter

Using an atomic force microscope we have created nanotube junctions such as buckles and crossings within individual single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes connected to metallic electrodes. The electronic transport properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henk W. Ch. Postma , Mark de Jonge , Zhen Yao , Cees Dekker

Nonlinear transport through interacting single-wall nanotubes containing a few impurities is studied theoretically. Extending the Luttinger liquid theory to incorporate trigonal warping and chirality effects, we derive the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Martino , R. Egger , A. M. Tsvelik

Nonchiral single wall carbon nanotubes with an "armchair" wrapping are theoretically predicted to be conducting, and high purity samples consisting predominantly of these tubes exhibit metallic behavior with an intrinsic resistivity which…

The transport in a pure one-dimensional quantum wire is investigated for any range of interactions. First, the wire is connected to measuring leads. The transmission of an incident electron is found to be perfect, and the conductance is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Ines Safi

We analyze transport in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on insulating substrates over the bias range up to electrical breakdown in air. To account for Joule self-heating, a temperature-dependent Landauer model for electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Pop , David Mann , Kenneth Goodson , Hongjie Dai

Anomalous heat transport in one-dimensional nanostructures, such as nanotubes and nanowires, is a widely debated problem in condensed matter and statistical physics, with contradicting pieces of evidence from experiments and simulations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Zekun Chen , Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Davide Donadio

We study transport through two Luttinger liquids (one-dimensional electrons interacting through a Coulomb repulsion in a metal) coupled together at {\it two} points. External voltage biases are incorporated through boundary conditions. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Durganandini , Sumathi Rao

We investigate correlated electronic transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes with two intramolecular tunneling barriers. We suggest that below a characteristic temperature the long range nature of the Coulomb interaction becomes crucial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Thorwart , M. Grifoni , G. Cuniberti , H. W. Ch. Postma , C. Dekker

A Hubbard-Luttinger model is developed for qualitative description of one-dimensional motion of interacting Pi-conductivity-electrons in carbon single-wall nanotubes at low temperatures. The low-lying excitations in one-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 H. A. Ishkhanyan , V. P. Krainov

We report that the conductance of macroscopic multiwall nanotube (MWNT) bundles under pressure shows power laws in temperature and voltage, as corresponding to a network of bulk-bulk connected Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids (LL). Contrary to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Monteverde , M. Nunez-Regueiro , G. Garbarino , C. Acha , X. Jing , L. Lu , Z. W. Pan , S. S. Xie , J. Souletie , R. Egger

Thermodynamic and transport properties of a two dimensional circular quantum dot are studied theoretically at zero magnetic field. In the limit of a large confining potential, where the dot spectrum exhibits a shell structure, it is argued…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paula Rojt , Yigal Meir , Assa Auerbach