Gunlyke, D. and Jefferson, J. H. and Bailey, S. W. D. and Lambert, C. J. and Pettifor, G. and Briggs, G. A. D. (2006) Zener quantum dot spin filter in a carbon nanotube. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 18 (21). S843-S849. ISSN 1361-648X
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We predict and analyse a novel spin filter in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. By using local electrostatic gates, the conduction and valence bands can be modulated to form a double-barrier structure. The confined region below the valence band defines a Zener quantum dot, which exhibits resonant tunnelling. The resonances split in a magnetic field to make a bipolar spin filter for applications in spintronics and quantum information processing. We model this using (k) over right arrow . (p) over right arrow envelope function theory and show that this is in excellent agreement with a corresponding tight-binding calculation.