Excitons in carbon nanotubes: An ab initia symmetry-based approach

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Chang, Eric ^a   Bussi, Giovanni ^a   Ruini, Alice ^a   Molinari, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINDING ENERGY; EXCITONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION; VECTORS;

BETHE SALPETER EQUATIONS (BSE); FOURIER SPACES; GAUSSIAN ORBITALS; LOCAL FIELD EFFECTS (LFE); RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION (RPA);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 17044461775     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.196401     Document Type: Article

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