Magnetic field effects and renormalization of the long-range Coulomb interaction in carbon nanotubes

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2005.08.010MaRDI QIDQ2368898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefano Bellucci, Pasquale Onorato

Publication date 28 April 2006

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510590

zbMATH Keywords

conductors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems (82D99) Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems (81V99)

Abstract: We develop two theoretical approaches for dealing with the low-energy effects of the repulsive interaction in one-dimensional electron systems. Renormalization Group methods allow us to study the low-energy behavior of the unscreened interaction between currents of well-defined chirality in a strictly one-dimensional electron system. A dimensional regularization approach is useful, when dealing with the low-energy effects of the long-range Coulomb interaction. This method allows us to avoid the infrared singularities arising from the long-range Coulomb interaction at $D=1$. We can also compare these approaches with the Luttinger model, in order to analyze the effects of the short range term in the interaction. Thanks to these methods, we are able to discuss the effects of a strong magnetic field $B$ in quasi one-dimensional electron systems, by focusing our attention on Carbon Nanotubes. Our results imply a variation with $B$ in the value of the critical exponent $alpha$ for the tunneling density of states, which is in fair agreement with that observed in a recent transport experiment involving carbon nanotubes. The dimensional regularization allows us to predict the disappearance of the Luttinger liquid, when the magnetic field increases, with the formation of a chiral liquid with $alpha=0$.

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