Abstract

We report 13C nuclear magnetic resonance measurements on 13C-enriched single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) bundles. The temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate, 1/T1, exhibits a power law variation, as expected for a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL). The observed exponent is smaller than that expected for the two-band TLL model. A departure from the power law is observed only at low T, where thermal and electronic Zeeman energy merge. Extrapolation to zero magnetic field indicates gapless spin excitations. The wide T range on which power law behaviour is observed suggests that SWCNT is so far the best realization of a one-dimensional quantum metal.

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