Quantum transport

We have seen that to a given dimensionality is associated a specific quantum transport behaviour at low temperature while some MWCNTs seem to be 2D systems, SWCNTs behave as ID or OD systems. 

Typical magnetoconductance data for the individual MWCNT are shown in Fig. 4. At low temperature, reproducible aperiodic fluctuations appear in the magnetoconduclance. The positions of the peaks and the valleys with respect to magnetic field are temperature independent. In Fig. 5, we present the temperature dependence of the peak-to-peak amplitude of the conductance fluctuations for three selected peaks (see Fig. 4) as well as the rms amplitude of the fluctuations, rms[AG]. It may be seen that the fiuctuations have constant amplitudes at low temperature, which decrease slowly with increasing temperature following a weak power law at higher temperature. The turnover in the temperature dependence of the conductance fluctuations occurs at a critical temperature Tc = 0.3 K which, in contrast to the values discussed above, is independent of the magnetic field. This behaviour was found to be consistent with a quantum transport effect of universal character, the universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) [25,26]. UCFs were previously observed in mesoscopic weakly disordered... 

In conclusion, wc have shown the interesting information which one can get from electrical resistivity measurements on SWCNT and MWCNT and the exciting applications which can be derived. MWCNTs behave as an ultimate carbon fibre revealing specific 2D quantum transport features at low temperatures weak localisation and universal conductance fluctuations. SWCNTs behave as pure quantum wires which, if limited in length, reduce to quantum dots. Thus, each type of CNT has its own features which are strongly dependent on the dimensionality of the electronic gas. We have also briefly discussed the very recent experimental results obtained on the thermopower of SWCNT bundles and the effect of intercalation on the electrical resistivity of these systems. 

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In order to obtain estimates of quantum transport at the molecular scale [105], electronic structure calculations must be plugged into a formalism which would eventually lead to observables such as the linear conductance (equilibrium transport) or the current-voltage characteristics (nonequilibrium transport). The directly measurable transport quantities in mesoscopic (and a fortiori molecular) systems, such as the linear conductance, are characterized by a predominance of quantum effects—e.g., phase coherence and confinement in the measured sample. This was first realized by Landauer [81] for a so-called two-terminal configuration, where the sample is sandwiched between two metalhc electrodes energetically biased to have a measurable current. Landauer s great intuition was to relate the conductance to an elastic scattering problem and thus to quantum transmission probabilities. 

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