One-dimensional transport in bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes

We report measurements of the temperature and gate voltage dependence for individual bundles (ropes) of single-walled nanotubes. When the conductance is less than about e(2)/h at room temperature, it is found to decrease as an approximate power law of temperature down to the region a here Coulomb blockade sets in. The power-law exponents are consistent with those expected for electron tunneling into a Luttinger liquid. When the conductance is greater than e(2)/h at room temperature, it changes much more slowly at high temperatures, but eventually develops very large fluctuations as a function of gate voltage when sufficiently cold. We discuss the interpretation of these results in terms of impurity scattering within the Luttinger liquid.