Carbon Nanotubes As Quantum Wires
The carbon nanotube is an example of a quantum wire. A metallic single-walled carbon nanotube that is sufficiently short to exhibit no internal scattering (ballistic transport) has a conductance that approaches two times the conductance quantum, . The factor of two arises because carbon nanotubes have two spatial channels.
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