Electron-electron interaction effects on optical excitations in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

Details Electron-electron interaction effects on optical excitations in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes Electron-electron interaction effects on optical excitations in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

2004-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406203v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 157402 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 3 figures, To appear in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.157402

We report correlated-electron calculations of optically excited states in ten semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes with a wide range of diameters. Optical excitation occurs to excitons whose binding energies decrease with the increasing nanotube diameter, and are smaller than the binding energy of an isolated strand of poly-(paraphenylene vinylene). The ratio of the energy of the second optical exciton polarized along the nanotube axis to that of the lowest exciton is smaller than the value predicted within single-particle theory. The experimentally observed weak photoluminescence is an intrinsic feature of semiconducting nanotubes, and is consequence of dipole-forbidden excitons occurring below the optical exciton.

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