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Many types of molecular motors have been proposed and synthesized in recent years, displaying different kinds of motion, and fueled by different driving forces such as light, heat, or chemical reactions. We propose a new type of molecular…
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Electrostatic potentials strongly affect molecular energy levels and charge states, providing the fascinating opportunity of molecular gating. Their influence on molecular vibrations remains less explored. Here, we investigate…
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We demonstrate theoretically that it is possible to use Rabi oscillations to coherently control the electron tunneling in an asymmetric double quantum dot system, a quantum dot molecule. By applying an optical pump pulse we can excite an…
We present the observation of electrically tunable quantum coupling of orbital states in individual InAs/InGaAs quantum dot molecules emitting in the telecom O-band (~1300 nm). By tuning the static electric field along the growth axis of…
Dynamical Phase transitions (DPTs) describe the abrupt change in the dynamical properties of open systems when a single control parameter is slightly modified. Recently we found that this phenomenon is also present in a simple model of a…
We investigate the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate of magnetic atoms in which the dipoles are rotated by an external magnetic field. The time-averaged dipole-dipole interaction between the atoms is effectively tuned by this rotation,…
To elucidate the high external quantum efficiency observed for organic light-emitting diodes using a bisanthracene derivative, BD1, as the emitting molecule, off-diagonal vibronic coupling constants (VCCs) between the excited states of BD1,…
Scanning transmission x-ray microscopy is employed to investigate experimentally the reversal of the magnetic vortex core polarity in cylindrical Ni81Fe19 nanodisks triggered by two orthogonal monopolar magnetic field pulses with peak…
This work emphasizes that the transition voltages $V_{t \pm}$ for both bias polarities ($V${\raisebox{1.2ex}{$_{\stackrel{>}{<}}$}0}) should be used to properly determine the energy offset $\varepsilon_{0}$ of the molecular orbital closest…
We demonstrate the tuning of the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) within a dysprosium Bose-Einstein condensate by rapidly rotating the orientation of the atomic dipoles. The tunability of the dipolar mean-field energy manifests as a…
We present a qualitative model for a fundamental process in molecular electronics: the change in conductance upon bond breaking. In our model a diatomic molecule is attached to spin-polarized contacts. Employing a Hubbard Hamiltonian,…
Devices for nano- and molecular size electronics are currently a focus of research aimed at an efficient current rectification and switching. A few generic molecular scale devices are reviewed here on the basis of first-principles and model…
We propose a novel scheme to efficiently polarize and manipulate the electron spin in a quantum dot. This scheme is based on the spin-orbit interaction and it possesses following advantages: (1) The direction and the strength of the spin…