Wednesday, May 29, 2013

1305.6572 (M. C. Sweeney et al.)

Exciton Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes: From the Luttinger Liquid to
Harmonic Oscillators
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M. C. Sweeney, J. D. Eaves
We show that the absorption spectrum in semiconducting nanotubes can be determined using the bosonization technique combined with mean-field theory and a harmonic approximation. Our results indicate that a multiple band semiconducting nanotube reduces to a system of weakly coupled harmonic oscillators. Additionally, the quasiparticle nature of the electron and hole that comprise an optical exciton emerges naturally from the bosonized model.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6572

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