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We study coherent phonon oscillations and tunneling between two coupled nonlinear nanomechanical resonators. We show that the coupling between two nanomechanical resonators creates an effective phonon Josephson junction which exhibits two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Shabir Barzanjeh , David Vitali

This thesis investigates the mechanically controlled break junctions, with a particular emphasis on elucidating the behaviour of molecular currents at room temperature. The core of this experimental investigation involves a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Giovanna Angelis Schmidt

We study the electron transport in a deformable lattice modeled in the semiclassical approximation as a discrete nonlinear elastic chain where acoustic phonons are in thermal equilibrium at temperature T. We reveal that an effective dynamic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-29 A. V. Savin , Y. S. Kivshar , M. I. Molina

A resolvent formalism is applied to the problem of inelastic scattering of an electron linearly coupled to a set of phonon modes. It is shown how the many phonon mode coupling and excitation can be reduced to a single phonon mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Gata

We present a study of the charge transmission behavior of a series of dithiol polyenes in the context of molecular junctions. Using the Landauer theory and zero voltage approximation the Green's functions of the inserted molecules are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schnurpfeil , Martin Albrecht

Phonon coherence elucidates the propagation and interaction of phonon quantum states within superlattice, unveiling the wave-like nature and collective behaviors of phonons. Taking MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ lateral heterostructures as a model…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Xin Wu , Zhang Wu , Ting Liang , Zheyong Fan , Jianbin Xu , Masahiro Nomura , Penghua Ying

The thermal interface conductance between Al and Si was simulated by a non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method. In the simulations, the coupling between electrons and phonons in Al are considered by using a stochastic force. The results…

Nonequilibrium electron distribution in a superlattice subjected to a homogeneous electric field (biased superlattice with equipopulated levels) is studied within the tight-binding approximation, taking into account the scattering by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Hernandez-Cabrera , P. Aceituno , F. T. Vasko

Understanding the current-induced vibrational dynamics in molecular nanojunctions is critical for gaining insight into the stability of such systems. While it is well known that Joule heating at higher bias voltages plays an important role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Martin Mäck , Riley J. Preston , Michael Thoss , Samuel L. Rudge

A dynamical method for inelastic transport simulations in nanostructures is compared with a steady-state method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. A simplified form of the dynamical method produces, in the steady state in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Eunan J. McEniry , Thomas Frederiksen , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas , Andrew P. Horsfield

The low-frequency vibrational spectrum of an isolated nanometer-scale solid differs dramatically from that of a bulk crystal, causing the decay of a localized electronic state by phonon emission to be inhibited. We show, however, that an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Ho-Soon Yang , Michael R. Geller , W. M. Dennis

Phonon transmission across an interface between dissimilar crystalline solids is calculated using molecular dynamics simulations with interatomic force constants obtained from first principles. The results reveal that although inelastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Takuru Murakami , Takuma Hori , Takuma Shiga , Junichiro Shiomi

Electron transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to Luttinger liquid leads is considered in the master equation approach. It is shown that for a weak or moderately strong interaction the differential conductance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-06 G. A. Skorobagatko , I. V. Krive

We show that a quantum phase transition can occur in a phonon system in the presence of dislocations. Due to the competing nature between the topological protection of the dislocation and anharmonicity, phonons can reach a quantum critical…

We study full counting statistics for classical heat transport through anharmonic/nonlinear molecular junctions formed by interacting oscillators. Analytical result of the steady state heat flux for an overdamped anharmonic junction with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-13 Sha Liu , Bjiay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

The description of nonequilibrium states of solids in a simplified manner is a challenge in the field of ultrafast dynamics. Here, the phonon thermalization in solids through the three-phonon scatterings is investigated by solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Shota Ono

We calculate characteristic correlation functions for the Anderson model with additional phonon-assisted coupling to the odd conduction channel. This model describes, for example, the behavior of a molecule embedded between two electrodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-05 Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak , Rok Zitko

We show that the local temperature dependence of thermalized electron and phonon populations along metallic carbon nanotubes is the main reason behind this non-linear transport characteristics in the high bias regime. Our model that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Kuroda , J. -P. Leburton

The measured frequencies and intensities of different first- and second- order Raman peaks of suspended graphene are used to show that optical phonons and different acoustic phonon polarizations are driven out of local equilibrium inside a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-22 Sean Sullivan , Ajit Vallabhaneni , Iskandar Kholmanov , Xiulin Ruan , Jayathi Murthy , Li Shi

We employ the time-dependent non-crossing approximation to investigate the joint effect of strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interaction on the instantaneous conductance of a single molecule transistor which is abruply moved into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-19 Ali Goker