Vibrational effects in laser driven molecular wires
Abstract
The influence of an electron-vibrational coupling on the laser control of electron transport through a molecular wire that is attached to several electronic leads is investigated. These molecular vibrational modes induce an effective electron-electron interaction. In the regime where the wire electrons couple weakly to both the external leads and the vibrational modes, we derive within a Hartree-Fock approximation a nonlinear set of quantum kinetic equations. The quantum kinetic theory is then used to evaluate the laser driven, time-averaged electron current through the wire-leads contacts. This novel formalism is applied to two archetypical situations in the presence of electron-vibrational effects, namely, (i) the generation of a ratchet or pump current in a symmetrical molecule by a harmonic mixing field and (ii) the laser switching of the current through the molecule.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403614,
title = {Vibrational effects in laser driven molecular wires},
author = {Jörg Lehmann and Sigmund Kohler and Volkhard May and Peter Hänggi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403614},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX4 required