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arxiv: 2605.28250 · v1 · pith:CJWR6ARZnew · submitted 2026-05-27 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Taming quantum interference: a route to high electrical conductance in carbon nanotube assemblies

Teresa Kulka , Agnieszka E. Lekawa-Raus , John S. Bulmer , Krzysztof Koziol , Fedor F. Balakirev , Irina V. Lebedeva , Jacek A. Majewski , Magdalena Marganska
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Junction architecture controls quantum interference to achieve high conductance in carbon nanotube assemblies

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The paper establishes that electron-wave interference at inter-nanotube junctions governs transport in CNT networks, and that junction architecture can be used to control this interference for high transmission. Atomistic tight-binding NEGF calculations on SWCNT, DWCNT, and TWCNT junctions, supported by minimal models and an electron-waveguide interpretation, show that overlap length, doping, and magnetic field set high-transmission windows while added walls redistribute rather than multiply channels. Multi-junctions produce resonant filtering and TWCNT structures prove more field-sensitive than DWCNT or SWCNT ones. These mechanisms directly account for the lower, more field-sensitive conductance measured in MWCNT fibres compared with SWCNT fibres. A reader would care because the results supply concrete rules for engineering lightweight conductors that remain stable under demanding conditions such as strong magnetic fields.

Core claim

By modeling coherent transport through single and multiple SWCNT contacts as well as DWCNT and TWCNT junctions under perpendicular magnetic fields, the authors show that transmission is shaped by interference effects that depend on junction type: overlap length, doping, and field strength determine high-transmission windows in simple SWCNT junctions, gateway states can enhance conductance when subbands are gapped, magnetic fields can lift blockade, multi-junctions generate resonant filtering, DWCNT junctions remain outer-wall dominated, and TWCNT junctions become multi-channel and more field-sensitive. This framework explains the conductance differences observed between SWCNT and MWCNT fibre

What carries the argument

The electron-waveguide picture for quasi-1D nanoscale junctions, which identifies transport regimes set by overlap length, doping, and magnetic field and interprets CNT-specific effects such as gateway states and field-restored transmission

If this is right

  • High-transmission windows in single SWCNT-SWCNT junctions are set mainly by overlap length, doping, and magnetic field.
  • Gateway states enhance conductance when some CNT subbands are gapped and a magnetic field can restore transmission by lifting an interference blockade.
  • Multi-junction architectures generate resonant filtering while additional walls redistribute transmission instead of acting as independent channels.
  • DWCNT junctions remain outer-wall dominated and SWCNT-like whereas TWCNT junctions become genuinely multi-channel and more field-sensitive.
  • The calculated behaviors explain the lower and more field-sensitive conductance of MWCNT fibres relative to SWCNT fibres.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The selective role of added paths implies that junction complexity could be deliberately engineered for resonant filtering functions in nanoscale interconnects.
  • Comparing predictions with measurements on fibres that have deliberately varied junction densities would test whether the idealized junction results scale to macroscopic assemblies.
  • The outer-wall dominance in DWCNT versus multi-channel behavior in TWCNT suggests a practical criterion for choosing wall number when field stability is required.
  • Similar interference-control strategies may apply to other quasi-one-dimensional conductor networks, such as those formed by nanowires or nanoribbons.

Load-bearing premise

The atomistic tight-binding NEGF calculations performed on idealized, ordered junctions capture the dominant coherent transport physics in real, disordered CNT assemblies.

What would settle it

Measuring the magnetic-field dependence of conductance in SWCNT fibres versus MWCNT fibres that have been engineered with controlled junction overlap lengths and comparing the observed field sensitivity to the predicted higher sensitivity for multi-walled structures.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.28250 by Agnieszka E. Lekawa-Raus, Fedor F. Balakirev, Irina V. Lebedeva, Jacek A. Majewski, John S. Bulmer, Karolina Z. Milowska, Krzysztof Koziol, Magdalena Marganska, Teresa Kulka.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Models of CNTs and CNT junction architectures considered in this work, with the chiralities [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Morphology and magnetotransport of SWCNT and MWCNT fibres. (a-d) SEM images of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Transmission and transport regimes in overlapping atomic chains. (a) Sketch of the system, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Transport across an atomic chain junction in perpendicular magnetic field. (a) Sketch of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Electron transport through simple junctions of single-walled CNTs (type A systems) under [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Electron transport through simple SWCNT-SWCNT junctions under an external perpen [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Electron transport through simple SWCNT–SWCNT junctions under an external per [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Computed zero-bias transmission maps for single CNT junctions as a function of electron [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Electronic structure of short CNT junctions under an external perpendicular magnetic field. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Electron transport through complex architectures (type B systems) made of metallic (12,6) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Electron transport through DWCNT and MWCNT junctions under an external perpendic [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_11.png] view at source ↗
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Miniaturized electronics require lightweight conductors that maintain high conductance under demanding conditions. CNT networks are promising candidates, but their transport is governed by inter-nanotube junctions where electron waves interfere. Controlling this interference requires understanding how junction architecture shapes transmission. We explore coherent transport through experimentally relevant junctions, from single and multiple single-walled CNT (SWCNT) contacts to double-walled CNT (DWCNT) and triple-walled CNT (TWCNT) junctions, with atomistic tight-binding non-equilibrium Green's-function calculations, also under a perpendicular magnetic field. We use analytically solvable minimal models to identify transport regimes expected for quasi-1D nanoscale junctions, and an electron-waveguide picture to interpret their CNT-specific manifestations. For single SWCNT--SWCNT junctions, high-transmission windows are set mainly by overlap length, doping and magnetic field. Gateway states can enhance conductance when some CNT subbands are gapped, and in some cases a magnetic field can restore transmission by lifting an interference blockade. In more complex architectures, added paths become selective: multi-junctions generate resonant filtering, while additional walls redistribute transmission instead of acting as independent channels. DWCNT junctions remain outer-wall dominated and SWCNT-like, whereas TWCNT junctions become genuinely multi-channel and more field-sensitive. This explains the lower, more field-sensitive conductance of multi-walled CNT (MWCNT) fibres, in accord with our ultrahigh-field measurements on SWCNT and MWCNT fibres. Ultimately, this work turns microscopic interference mechanisms into design principles for high-conductance, field-stable CNT conductors.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript uses atomistic tight-binding NEGF calculations on idealized SWCNT, DWCNT and TWCNT junctions (varying overlap length, doping and perpendicular B-field) together with minimal analytically solvable models and an electron-waveguide interpretation to identify transmission regimes. It concludes that interference mechanisms can be turned into design rules for high-conductance, field-stable CNT conductors and that the results explain the lower, more field-sensitive conductance observed in MWCNT fibres versus SWCNT fibres, in accord with the authors' ultrahigh-field measurements.

Significance. If the mapping from single-junction transmission windows to ensemble transport in real disordered fibres can be established, the work would supply concrete microscopic guidance for junction engineering. The absence of any explicit aggregation step (percolation, effective-medium or disordered-network simulation) that demonstrates survival of the reported high-transmission windows under realistic junction statistics, defects and series/parallel paths leaves the central design-principle claim on an unvalidated extrapolation.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract (final paragraph) and the corresponding discussion of fibre data: the assertion that the idealized-junction results 'explain' the measured conductance difference between SWCNT and MWCNT fibres and supply 'design principles' for real assemblies requires an explicit link (percolation model, effective-medium theory or ensemble simulation) showing that the identified transmission windows survive random junction statistics, defects and multi-path averaging. No such aggregation calculation is described.

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We thank the referee for the detailed review and constructive feedback. We address the central concern regarding the link between junction-level results and fibre-scale transport below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (final paragraph) and the corresponding discussion of fibre data: the assertion that the idealized-junction results 'explain' the measured conductance difference between SWCNT and MWCNT fibres and supply 'design principles' for real assemblies requires an explicit link (percolation model, effective-medium theory or ensemble simulation) showing that the identified transmission windows survive random junction statistics, defects and multi-path averaging. No such aggregation calculation is described.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript does not contain an explicit aggregation calculation (percolation, effective-medium or disordered-network simulation) that would quantitatively demonstrate survival of the high-transmission windows under realistic junction statistics. Our work is deliberately scoped to the microscopic level: atomistic NEGF calculations on idealized but experimentally relevant junctions, supported by minimal analytic models and an electron-waveguide interpretation. The design principles are therefore formulated as junction-engineering guidelines derived directly from the identified transmission regimes (overlap length, doping, magnetic-field windows, gateway states, and channel redistribution in multi-wall structures). The statement that the results 'explain' the fibre data is qualitative: the TWCNT calculations show that additional walls produce genuinely multi-channel, more field-sensitive transport, in contrast to the outer-wall-dominated, SWCNT-like behavior of DWCNT junctions; this trend is consistent with the lower, more field-sensitive conductance measured in MWCNT versus SWCNT fibres. While a full ensemble simulation would strengthen the extrapolation, it lies outside the present scope and would constitute a separate study. We have therefore not added such a calculation. revision: no

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No significant circularity; computational modeling study with independent derivation chain

full rationale

The paper's core consists of atomistic tight-binding NEGF calculations on idealized SWCNT/DWCNT/TWCNT junctions, supplemented by analytically solvable minimal models and an electron-waveguide interpretation. These steps generate transmission windows, gateway states, and field effects directly from the Hamiltonian and geometry inputs without any fitted parameters being relabeled as predictions. The abstract notes accord with the authors' own ultrahigh-field fibre measurements, but this is presented as consistency check rather than a load-bearing self-citation that defines the result. No self-definitional loops, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of known results appear in the derivation; the mapping from microscopic interference to design principles is generated by the explicit calculations rather than presupposed.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Central claim rests on the standard tight-binding Hamiltonian and NEGF formalism for quasi-1D systems; no free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Tight-binding approximation accurately describes low-energy electronic states of CNTs
    Invoked by the choice of atomistic tight-binding NEGF method in the abstract.
  • domain assumption Coherent transport dominates over incoherent scattering at the junctions studied
    Stated by the focus on coherent transport calculations.

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