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Electron–phonon coupling effect on quantum transport in carbon nanotubes using time-dependent wave-packet approach

✍ Scribed by Hiroyuki Ishii; Nobuhiko Kobayashi; Kenji Hirose


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
158 KB
Volume
40
Category
Article
ISSN
1386-9477

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✦ Synopsis


We investigate the electron-phonon coupling effects on the electronic transport properties of the metallic ð5; 5Þ-carbon nanotube using the time-dependent wave-packet approach based on the Kubo-Greenwood formula within a tight-binding approximation. We consider the zone-center longitudinal optical phonon among various phonon modes, and calculate the conductance for the 10 mm carbon nanotubes at room temperature. We show that the electron-phonon coupling largely decreases the conductance around the Fermi energy, which is explained by the time-dependent behaviors of propagating length and the electronic band structure.