Luttinger Liquid Behavior in Carbon Nanotubes
Abstract
An interacting one-dimensional (1D) electron system is predicted to behave very differently than its higher-dimensional counterparts. Coulomb interactions strongly modify the properties away from those of a Fermi liquid, resulting in a Luttinger liquid (LL) characterized by a power-law vanishing of the density of states at the Fermi level. Experiments on one-dimensional semiconductor wires and fractional quantum Hall conductors have been interpreted using this picture, but questions remain about the connection between theory and experiment. Recently, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have emerged as a new type of 1D conductor that may exhibit LL behavior. Here we present measurements of the conductance of individual ropes of such SWNTs as a function of temperature and voltage. Power law behavior as a function of temperature or bias voltage is observed: G~ T^a and dI/dV ~ V^a. Both the power-law functional forms and the inferred exponents are in good agreement with theoretical predictions for tunneling into a LL.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9812233,
title = {Luttinger Liquid Behavior in Carbon Nanotubes},
author = {M. Bockrath and D. H. Cobden and J. Lu and A. G. Rinzler and R. E. Smalley and L. Balents and P. L. Mceuen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9812233},
year = {2009}
}