Lüttinger liquid to Al'tshuler - Aronov transition in disordered, many-channel carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 207-212

  Kar, Swastik ^a   Soldano, Caterina ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Talapatra, Saikat ^b   Vajtai, Robert ^c   Nayak, Saroj ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^c  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

1d hybrinanostructure; Al'tshuler aronov; Carbon nanotubes; Correlated electron systems; L ttinger liquid; Metal decoration; Spin orbit coupling; Weak localization

Indexed keywords

1D HYBRINANOSTRUCTURE; AL'TSHULER-ARONOV; CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS; METAL DECORATION; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING; WEAK-LOCALIZATION;

ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUBES; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; LIQUIDS; LUTETIUM; ORBITS; PLATINUM; SPIN DYNAMICS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 61849103554     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800678v     Document Type: Article

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