(1) and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Group of Computational Condensed Matter Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing, 210093, P.R. China
Abstract:
The quantum conductance oscillations (QCOs) of the intramolecular junction
(IMJ) composed of two single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been studied
by using a π-orbital only tight-binding (TB) model and a Green’s
function technique. It is found that in the IMJs in addition to the rapid
QCO frequencies corresponding to the constituent tubes there exist also
their sum frequencies. The slow QCO frequencies of the IMJ will be different
from those of its corresponding two perfect tubes if they have different
chiral angles.