Possibility for exciton Bose-Einstein condensation in carbon nanotubes
Abstract
We demonstrate a possibility for exciton Bose-Einstein condensation in individual small-diameter (∼1--2 nm) semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The effect occurs under the exciton-interband-plasmon coupling controlled by an external electrostatic field applied perpendicular to the nanotube axis. It requires fields ∼1 V/nm and temperatures below 100 K that are experimentally accessible. The effect offers a testing ground for fundamentals of condensed matter physics in one dimension and opens up perspectives to develop tunable coherent polarized light source with carbon nanotubes.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- January 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.045414
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1304.2804
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvB..89d5414B
- Keywords:
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- 78.67.Ch;
- 73.22.-f;
- 73.63.Fg;
- 78.40.Ri;
- Nanotubes;
- Electronic structure of nanoscale materials: clusters nanoparticles nanotubes and nanocrystals;
- Fullerenes and related materials;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 appendices