Enhanced NMR Relaxation of Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids and the Magnitude of the Carbon Hyperfine Coupling in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Author(s)
Annamaria Kiss, A. Palyi, Yoshihiko Ihara, Pawel Wzietek, P. Simon, Henri Alloul, Viktor Zolyomi, János Koltai, Jenö Kürti, Balázs Dóra, Ferenc Simon
Abstract

Recent transport measurements [Churchill et al. Nature Phys. 5, 321 (2009)] found a surprisingly large, 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than usual (13)C hyperfine coupling (HFC) in (13)C enriched single-wall carbon nanotubes. We formulate the theory of the nuclear relaxation time in the framework of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory to enable the determination of the HFC from recent data by Ihara et al. [Europhys. Lett. 90, 17 004 (2010)]. Though we find that 1/T(1) is orders of magnitude enhanced with respect to a Fermi-liquid behavior, the HFC has its usual, small value. Then, we reexamine the theoretical description used to extract the HFC from transport experiments and show that similar features could be obtained with HFC-independent system parameters.

Organisation(s)
Electronic Properties of Materials
External organisation(s)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Université Paris XI - Paris-Sud, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lancaster University
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
107
No. of pages
5
ISSN
0031-9007
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.187204
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103015 Condensed matter
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/cd2d4865-93e2-4aac-8a73-d546ae04f41c