Effects of localized spins on excitons in single-walled carbon nanotubes with imperfections

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Excitons comprising electron-hole pairs are one of the representative many-body effects in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and are well known to affect the optical properties of CNTs. In addition to the excitons, another fascinating many-body effect in CNTs is magnetism that is inherent in CNTs with certain imperfections, such as adsorbents, defects and interfaces, in their hexagonal atomic network. In this paper, we report on the interesting interplay between these two many-body effects in CNTs: the localized spins originating from imperfections in CNTs can couple to the excitons and change the spin state of excitons. We show that the interaction can be written as the spin-spin interaction expressed by the Kondo-like Hamiltonian. Our calculation reveals that the interaction induces mixing between the singlet and triplet excitons and that this mixing produces optically activated triplet excitons. The results solve a recent mystery regarding the microscopic origin of unexpected behavior in the photoluminescence spectra of CNTs.

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