(1) Department of Mathematics and Physics, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450007, China;(2) National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
Abstract:
We have calculated the quantum conductance of single-walled
carbon nanotube (SWNT) waveguide by using a tight binding-based
Greens function approach. Our calculations show that the slow
conductance oscillations as well as the fast conductance
oscillations are manifestations of the intrinsic quantum
interference properties of the conducting SWNTs, being independent
of the defect and disorder of the SWNTs. And zigzag type tubes do
not show the slow oscillations. The SWNT electron waveguide is
also found to have distinctly different transport behavior
depending on whether or not the length of the tube is commensurate
with a (3N+1) rule, with N the number of basic carbon repeat
units along the nanotube length.