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Results are presented for the electron current in gold chiral nanotubes (AuNTs). Starting from the band structure of (4,3) and (5,3) AuNTs, we find that the magnitude of the chiral currents are greater than those found in carbon nanotubes. We also calculate the associated magnetic flux inside the tubes and find this to be higher than the case of carbon nanotubes. Although (4,3) and (5,3) AuNTs carry transverse momenta of similar magnitudes, the low-bias magnetic flux carried by the former is far greater than that carried by the latter. This arises because the low-bias longitudinal current carried by a (4,3) AuNT is significantly smaller than that of a (5,3) AuNT. 5 pages, 6 figures

The SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R chiral quark model consisting of the (sigma,pi) meson multiplet and the constituent quarks propagating on the homogeneous background of a temporal gauge field is solved at finite temperature and quark baryon chemical potential mu_q using an expansion in the number of flavors N_f, both in the chiral limit and for the physical value of the pion mass. Keeping the fermion propagator at its tree-level, several approximations to the pion propagator are investigated. These approximations correspond to different partial resummations of the perturbative series. Comparing their solution with a diagrammatically formulated resummation relying on a strict large-N_f expansion of the perturbative series one concludes that only when the local part of the approximated pion propagator resums infinitely many orders in 1/N_f of fermionic contributions a sufficiently rapid crossover transition at mu_q=0 is achieved allowing for the existence of a tricritical point or a critical end point in the mu_q-T phase diagram. The renormalization and the possibility of determining the counterterms in the resummation provided by a strict large-N_f expansion are investigated. Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, 5 graphs, and 3 tables; uses revtex4-1, minor corrections and investigation of the influence of the pion-fermion setting-sun integral on the field equations for the Polyakov loop and its conjugate. Version published in the Phys. Rev. D journal

Using a tight binding model we calculate the conductance of monovalent atomic chains for different contact geometries. The leads connected to the chains are modelled as semi-infinite fcc lattices with different orientations and couplings. Our aim is twofold: To check the validity of a three-parametric conductance formula for differently oriented leads, and to investigate the geometry dependence of the conductance oscillations. We show that the character of these oscillations depends strongly on the geometry of the chain-lead coupling. 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table