Effects of time-reversal symmetric gauge fields on the groundstate properties of carbon nanotubes and tori - Persistent currents in twisted tori and local energy gap in deformed tubes

摘要

The basic properties of conducting electrons in carbon nanotubes are reviewed from a theoretical perspective, and studies performed on persistent currents in toroidal carbon nanotubes and on the local energy gap in deformed nanotubes are reported on. (c) 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH T Co. KGaA, Weinheim.