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1Department of Physics and Institute for Nanophysics and Rare-earth Luminescence, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan, People's Republic of China. xtangphy@xtu.edu.cn
Abstract:
The electronic structure and the magnetic response of toroidal carbon nanopeapods (TCNPs) are investigated within the sp(3) tight-binding formalism. It is found that in the presence of mirror symmetry, there exists a level crossing at the Fermi level in the energy spectrum of a TCNP, leading to giant orbital paramagnetism (GOP), in spite of the curvatures and hybridizations of the outer toroidal carbon nanotube (TCN). When the mirror symmetry is broken by rotating the inner C(60)s, however, two level crossings appear at the Fermi level, and the GOP changes into a very small diamagnetic response. The results reveal the GOP in a filled TCN, depending on the characteristics of the filling materials and temperature.
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