Disorder, pseudospins, and backscattering in carbon nanotubesopen access
- Authors
- McEuen, Paul L.; Bockrath, Mare; Cobden, David H.; Yoon, Young-Gui; Louie, Steven G.
- Issue Date
- Dec-1999
- Publisher
- AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
- Citation
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, v.83, no.24, pp 5098 - 5101
- Pages
- 4
- Journal Title
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
- Volume
- 83
- Number
- 24
- Start Page
- 5098
- End Page
- 5101
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/56825
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5098
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
1079-7114
- Abstract
- We address the effects of disorder on the conducting properties of metal and semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Experimentally, the mean free path is found to be much larger in metallic tubes than in doped semiconducting tubes. We show that this result can be understood theoretically if the disorder potential is long ranged. The effects of a pseudospin index that describes the internal sublattice structure of the states lead to a suppression of scattering in metallic tubes, but not in semiconducting tubes. This conclusion is supported by tight-binding calculations.
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