Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and Coulomb blockade in multiwall carbon nanotubes under pressure

M. Monteverde, G. Garbarino, M. Núñez-Regueiro*, J. Souletie, C. Acha, X. Jing, L. Lu, Z. W. Pan, S. S. Xie, R. Egger

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Abstract

We report that the conductance of macroscopic multiwall nanotube (MWNT) bundles under pressure shows power laws in temperature and voltage, as corresponding to a network of bulk-bulk connected Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids (LLs). Contrary to individual MWNTs, where the observed power laws are attributed to Coulomb blockade, the measured ratio for the end and bulk obtained exponents, ∼2.4, can be accounted for only by LL theory. At temperatures characteristic of interband separation, it increases due to thermal population of the conducting sheets unoccupied bands.

Original languageEnglish
Article number176401
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume97
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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