Ab-initio structural, elastic, and vibrational properties of carbon nanotubes

Details Ab-initio structural, elastic, and vibrational properties of carbon nanotubes Ab-initio structural, elastic, and vibrational properties of carbon nanotubes

1998-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9811363v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B (11 Nov. 98)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.59.12678

A study based on ab initio calculations is presented on the estructural, elastic, and vibrational properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes with different radii and chiralities. We use SIESTA, an implementation of pseudopotential-density-functional theory which allows calculations on systems with a large number of atoms per cell. Different quantities like bond distances, Young moduli, Poisson ratio and the frequencies of different phonon branches are monitored versus tube radius. The validity of expectations based on graphite is explored down to small radii, where some deviations appear related to the curvature effects. For the phonon spectra, the results are compared with the predictions of the simple zone-folding approximation. Except for the known defficiencies of this approximation in the low-frequency vibrational regions, it offers quite accurate results, even for relatively small radii.

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