Abstract Submitted to the NANOTUBE'02 Workshop:

In low-dimensional structures with broken inversion and time reversal symmetries electron properties are different for mutually opposite directions [O. V. Kibis, Phys. Lett. A 237 (1998) 292]. As a consequence, unusual electron transport phenomena take place there. The phenomena were predicted for the first time theoretically [O. V. Kibis, Phys. Lett. A 244 (1998) 432] and experimentally observed in recent studies for two-dimensional semiconductor structures [A.G. Pogosov, M.V. Budantsev, O.V. Kibis, et al., Phys. Rev. B 61 (2000) 15603] . These anomalous electronic properties must also take place in a chiral carbon nanotube in presence of a magnetic field. Really, in the nanotube due to its chiral crystal structure an inversion symmetry is absent and due to magnetic field there is the breaking of time reversal symmetry. Consequently, there is the asymmetrical electron properties there [O. V. Kibis, Phys. E, in press]. Particularly, in the nanotube photovoltaic effect exists! In other words, a lighting of chiral carbon nanotube in presence of a magnetic field along nanotube axis results in a voltage drop along the nanotube. The presented paper involves a theoretical analysis of the effect.