ABSTRACT
In this chapter we consider the effect of chirality on conservation of
electron one-half pseudospins in the metallic carbon nanotubes. It
restricts probabilities of certain scattering processes when electron
momentum is located in the vicinity of Dirac points K and K′. In experimental situations it corresponds to low values of the bias
voltage VSD and of temperature T , that is, when max{VSD, T } ≤ . In particular, conservation of the pseudospin leads to suppression of
electron-impurity and of electron-phonon back scattering and thus
impacts the whole transport of electrons.
