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Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 066401 (2001) [4 pages]

Bulk and Boundary Zero-Bias Anomaly in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

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R. Egger1,2 and A. O. Gogolin1
1Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
2Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

Received 11 December 2000; published 18 July 2001

We compute the tunneling density of states of doped multiwall nanotubes including disorder and electron-electron interactions. A nonconventional Coulomb blockade reflecting nonperturbative Altshuler-Aronov-Lee power-law zero-bias anomalies is found, in accordance with recent experimental results. The presence of a boundary implies a universal doubling of the boundary exponent in the diffusive limit.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.066401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.066401
PACS:
71.10.-w, 71.20.Tx, 72.80.Rj