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Thermal Conductance for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
We report a theoretical analysis of the phonon thermal conductance, \kappa
(T), for single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCN). In a range of low temperatues up
to 100K, \kappa (T) of perfect SWCN is found to increase with temperature,
approximately, in a parabolic fashion. This is qualitatively consistent with
recent experimental measurements where the tube-tube interactions are
negligibly weak. When the carbon-carbon bond length is slightly varied, \kappa
(T) is found to be qualitatively unaltered which implies that the anharmonic
effect does not change the qualitative behavior of \kappa (T).Comment: Revtex, 4 figure
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