Quantum conductance of carbon nanotubes with defects

Leonor Chico; Lorin X. Benedict; Steven G. Louie; Marvin L. Cohen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.2600

Quantum conductance of carbon nanotubes with defects

Leonor Chico, Lorin X. Benedict, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 54, 2600 – Published 15 July 1996; Erratum Phys. Rev. B 61, 10511 (2000)

Abstract

We study the conductance of metallic carbon nanotubes with vacancies and pentagon-heptagon pair defects within the Landauer formalism. Using a tight-binding model and a Green’s function technique to calculate the scattering matrix, we examine the one-dimensional to two-dimensional crossover in these systems and show the existence of metallic tube junctions in which the conductance is suppressed for symmetry reasons. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

Received 11 March 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.54.2600

Erratum

Erratum: Quantum conductance of carbon nanotubes with defects [Phys. Rev. B 54, 2600 (1996)]

Leonor Chico, Lorin X. Benedict, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 61, 10511 (2000)

Authors & Affiliations

Leonor Chico, Lorin X. Benedict, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

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Vol. 54, Iss. 4 — 15 July 1996

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