Room temperature Peierls distortion in small radius nanotubes

D. Connetable, G. -M. Rignanese, J. -C. Charlier +1

By means of {\it ab initio} simulations, we investigate the phonon band structure and electron-phonon coupling in small 4-Ådiameter nanotubes. We show that both the C(5,0) and C(3,…