Issue |
EPL
Volume 78, Number 4, May 2007
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Article Number | 47002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/47002 | |
Published online | 10 May 2007 |
Geometry-induced smoothing of van Hove singularities in capped carbon nanotubes
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics - 141980 Dubna Moscow region, Russia
Corresponding authors: kolesnik@theor.jinr.ru osipov@theor.jinr.ru
Received:
22
December
2006
Accepted:
11
April
2007
The electronic states of capped semi-infinite nanotubes are studied within the phenomenological gauge field-theory model. A single manifold for the description of both the nanotube and the cap region (considered as nearly a half of either Ih or I fullerene) is suggested. The wave functions and the density of states (DoS) are numerically calculated for both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes. The smoothing of van Hove singularities is found and proven analytically. The comparison with the experimental observations is discussed.
PACS: 73.22.-f – Electronic structure of nanoscale materials: clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanocrystals / 71.20.Tx – Fullerenes and related materials; intercalation compounds / 73.22.Dj – Single particle states
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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