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Insulating, Superconducting, and Large-Compressibility Phases in Nanotube Ropes

J. V. Alvarez, J. González

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.076401 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

The superconducting properties of carbon nanotube ropes are studied using a new computational framework that incorporates the renormalization of intratube interactions and the effect of intertube Coulomb screening. This method allows one to study both the limits of thin and thick ropes ranging from purely one-dimensional physics to the setting of 3D Cooper-pair coherence, providing good estimates of the critical temperature as a function of the rope physical parameters. We discuss the connection of our results with recent experiments.

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