Journal of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials
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Journal

Journal of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials


Volume
& Issue

Volume 7, Issue 1


Published
on

January 1, 2019


Pages

17-25


DOI

Article

Stationary States of Charged Particles Channeled through Carbon Nanotubes

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Authors

Z. A. El-Wahab Affiliation:
Computer Science Department College of Computer and Information Sciences, Majmaah University, Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia
and M. K. Abu-Assy* Affiliation:
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt


Abstract

We investigate the bound states of relativistic positrons channeled in perfect single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), with different chiral indices (n,m). The channeling potential, has been calculated according to the continuum model approximation given by Lindhard. We find a general expression for the channeling potential fit the calculated channeling potential with fitting parameters for each carbon nanotube. We calculate the energy eigenvalues by, using the WKB method, the energy eigenfunctions and the position probability density of the channeled positron in a plane normal to the nanotube axis by solving the Shrödinger equation using the obtained general formula for the channeling potential.


Keywords

Carbon nanotubes, Relativistic positron beams, Bound states


Citation

El-Wahab, Z. A. & Abu-Assy, M. K. (2019). Stationary states of charged particles channeled through carbon nanotubes. Journal of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, 7(1), 17–25. https://doi.org/10.18576/jnam/070102

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