Spin splitting induced by spin-orbit interaction in chiral nanotubes.
Phys Rev Lett
; 93(17): 176402, 2004 Oct 22.
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ABSTRACT
We show that chiral tubes present spin splitting at the Fermi level in the absence of a magnetic field, whereas achiral tubes preserve spin degeneracy, as evidenced by tight-binding electronic structure calculations with the inclusion of spin-orbit interaction. These remarkably different behaviors of chiral and nonchiral nanotubes have a symmetry origin, which may provide a global explanation to recently reported spin-dependent transport experiments which were in apparent contradiction.
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2004
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