Helical modes in carbon nanotubes generated by strong electric fields

Details Helical modes in carbon nanotubes generated by strong electric fields Helical modes in carbon nanotubes generated by strong electric fields

2010-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1011.3630v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 156809 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.156809

Helical modes, conducting opposite spins in opposite directions, are shown to exist in metallic armchair nanotubes in an all-electric setup. This is a consequence of the interplay between spin-orbit interaction and strong electric fields. The helical regime can also be obtained in chiral metallic nanotubes by applying an additional magnetic field. In particular, it is possible to obtain helical modes at one of the two Dirac points only, while the other one remains gapped. Starting from a tight-binding model we derive the effective low-energy Hamiltonian and the resulting spectrum.

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