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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 61, Issue 16, Pages 11156-11165Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.11156
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We present a tight-binding theory to analyze the motion of electrons between carbon nanotubes bundled into a carbon nanotube rope. The theory is developed starting from a description of propagating Bloch waves on ideal tubes, and the effects of intertube motion are treated perturbatively on this basis. Expressions for the interwall tunneling amplitudes between states on neighboring tubes are derived which show the dependence on chiral angles and intratube crystal momenta. We find that conservation of crystal momentum along the tube direction suppresses interwall coherence in a carbon nanorope containing tubes with random chiralities, Numerical calculations are presented which indicate that electronic states in a rope are localized in the transverse direction, with a coherence length corresponding to a tube diameter.
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