Size, Shape, and Low Energy Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes
Size, Shape, and Low Energy Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes
A theory of the long wavelength low energy electronic structure of graphite-derived nanotubules is presented. The propagating $\pi$ electrons are described by wrapping a massless two dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian onto a curved surface. The effects of the tubule size, shape and symmetry are included through an effective vector potential which …