Talks at Nordita Programs [before October 2010]

Exciton Hierarchies in Carbon Nanotubes

by Robert Konik (Brookhaven National Lab)

Europe/Stockholm
132:028

132:028

Description
I present evidence that the strong electron-electron interactions in gapped carbon nanotubes lead to finite hierarchies of excitons within a given nanotube subband. I study these hierarchies by employing a field theoretic reduction of the gapped carbon nanotube permitting electron-electron interactions to be treated exactly. I analyze this reduction by employing a Wilsonian-like numerical renormalization group. I am so able to determine the gap ratios of the one-photon excitons as a function of the effective strength of interactions. I also determine within the same subband the gaps of the two-photon excitons, the single particle gaps, as well as a subset of the dark excitons. The strong electron-electron interactions in addition lead to strongly renormalized dispersion relations where the consequences of spin-charge separation can be readily observed.