Manifestations of electron interactions in photogalvanic effect in chiral nanotubes
Abstract
Carbon nanotubes provide one of the most accessible experimental realizations of one-dimensional electron systems. In the experimentally relevant regime of low doping, the Luttinger liquid formed by electrons may be approximated by a Wigner crystal. The crystal-like electronic order suggests that nanotubes exhibit effects similar to the Mössbauer effect where the momentum of an emitted photon is absorbed by the whole crystal. We show that the circular photovoltaic effect in chiral nanotubes is of the same nature. We obtain the frequency dependence of the photovoltage and characterize its singularities in a broad frequency range where the electron correlations are essential. Our predictions provide a basis for using the photogalvanic effect as a new experimental probe of electron correlations in nanotubes.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- May 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.195430
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1112.3154
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvB..85s5430M
- Keywords:
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- 78.67.Ch;
- 78.40.Ri;
- 84.60.Jt;
- Nanotubes;
- Fullerenes and related materials;
- Photoelectric conversion: solar cells and arrays;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 3 figures