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Helical liquid in carbon nanotubes wrapped with DNA molecules (1712.09950v1)

Published 28 Dec 2017 in cond-mat.mes-hall

Abstract: The measured electric resistance of carbon nanotubes wrapped with DNA molecules depends strongly on the spin of the injected electrons. Motivated by these experiments, we study the effect of helix-shaped potentials on the electronic spectrum of carbon nanotubes. We find that in combination with the curvature-induced spin-orbit coupling inherent to nanotubes, such a perturbation opens helicity-dependent gaps. Within these partial gaps, left-moving electrons carry a fixed spin-projection that is reversed for right-moving electrons, and the probability of electrons to transfer through the nanotube correlates with their helicity. We explain the origin of this effect and show that it can alternatively be induced by twisting the nanotube. Our findings suggest that carbon nanotubes hold great potential for implementing spin filters and may form an ideal platform to study the physical properties of one-dimensional helical liquids.

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