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Persistent Orbital Degeneracy in Carbon Nanotubes

A. Makarovski, L. An, J. Liu, G. Finkelstein

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0508401

Abstract

The quantum-mechanical orbitals in carbon nanotubes are doubly degenerate over a large number of states in the Coulomb blockade regime. We argue that this experimental observation indicates that electrons are reflected without mode mixing at the nanotube-metal contacts. Two electrons occupying a pair of degenerate orbitals (a ``shell'') are found to form a triplet state starting from zero magnetic field. Finally, we observe unexpected low-energy excitations at complete filling of a four-electron shell.

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