Eur. Phys. J. B 3, 281-300 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050315

Correlated transport and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in single-wall carbon nanotubes

¹ Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
² Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK

Corresponding author: ^a egger@castor.physik.uni-freiburg.de

Received: 12 December 1997
Revised: 9 March 1998
Accepted: 12 March 1998
Published online: 15 June 1998

Abstract

We derive the effective low-energy theory for single-wall carbon nanotubes including the Coulomb interactions among electrons. The generic model found here consists of two spin- fermion chains which are coupled by the interaction. We analyze the theory using bosonization, renormalization-group techniques, and Majorana refermionization. Several experimentally relevant consequences of the breakdown of Fermi liquid theory observed here are discussed in detail, e.g., magnetic instabilities, anomalous conductance laws, and impurity screening profiles.