1. Peierls transition with acoustic phonons and solitwistons in carbon nanotubes
- Author
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Jasper Knoester, Maxim Mostovoy, Marc Thilo Figge, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Theorie van de Gecondenseerde Materie, and Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and G
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Nanotube ,Materials science ,Condensed matter physics ,Peierls transition ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Electronic structure ,Carbon nanotube ,Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect ,Instability ,law.invention ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,DEPENDENT RESISTIVITY ,ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE ,law ,Lattice (order) ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons ,SOLITONS ,Twist ,FULLERENE TUBULES ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,Softening ,TEMPERATURE - Abstract
We show that the Peierls instability can result in softening of acoustic phonons with small wave vectors and suggest that this unusual transition takes place in carbon nanotubes, resulting in a static twist deformation of the nanotube lattice. The topological excitations in the ordered phase are immobile and propagate only in pairs.
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- 2001