Excitons in carbon nanotubes: Diameter and chirality trends

Abstract
We provide a closer look into the diameter and chirality dependences of exciton properties in carbon nanotubes, using a variational methodology based on the effective mass and envelope function approximations, supported by ab initio parameters. Experimental measurements of the binding energy are reproduced within 0.02 eV for a large variety of tubes. We also report on the singlet‐triplet energy splittings, which show a 1/d2 diameter dependence.