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We report first principles analysis of electron-phonon coupling in molecular devices under external bias voltage and during current flow. Our theory and computational framework are based carrying out density functional theory within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Sergueev , D. Roubtsov , Hong Guo

Quantum transport through single molecules is essentially affected by molecular vibrations. We investigate the behavior of the prototype single-level model with intermediate electron-vibron coupling and arbitrary coupling to the leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The influence of electron--phonon interactions on the dynamics of a quantum dot coupled to a photonic cavity mode is investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Within a polaron frame, the self-consistent-Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Gaston Hornecker , Alexia Auffèves , Thomas Grange

We study the small-polaron problem of a single electron interacting with the lattice for the Holstein model in the adiabatic limit on a comb lattice, when the electron-phonon interaction acts only on the base sites. The ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-07 Ilaria Meccoli , Massimo Capone

The problem of resonant transport of strongly interacting electrons through a one-dimensional single-level vibrating quantum dot is being considered. In this paper, we generalize the Komnik and Gogolin model [Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, 246403,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-13 Gleb A. Skorobagatko

Multiphonon processes in a model quantum dot (QD) containing two electronic states and several optical phonon modes are considered taking into account both intra- and inter-level terms. The Hamiltonian is exactly diagonalized including a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Vasilevskiy , E. V. Anda , S. S. Makler

We study correlation effects on the transport through a quantum dot superlattice using a two-dimensional Hubbard model connected to two noninteracting leads. To calculate the zero-temperature conductance away from half-filling, we have used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshihide Tanaka , Akira Oguri

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay

We discuss the electronic transport through molecules in the Kondo regime. We concentrate here on the influence of molecular vibrations. Two types of vibrations are investigated: (i) the breathing internal molecular modes, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-21 J. Mravlje , A. Ramsak

We explore electron transport properties in molecular wires made of heterocyclic molecules (pyrrole, furan and thiophene) by using the Green's function technique. Parametric calculations are given based on the tight-binding model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-13 Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We study coherent transport through a double quantum dot. Its two electronic leads induce electronic matter and energy transport and a phonon reservoir contributes further energy exchanges. By treating the system-lead couplings…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-07 Thilo Krause , Tobias Brandes , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller

In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport of a double quantum dot coupled with a nanomechanical resonator at arbitrary strong electron-phonon coupling regimes. We employ the generalized quantum master equation to study full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-22 Chen Wang , Jie Ren , Baowen Li , Qing-Hu Chen

We study electron transport properties of some molecular wires and a unconventional disordered thin film within the tight-binding framework using Green's function technique. We show that electron transport is significantly affected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

The combined effect of bulk and interface electron-phonon couplings on the transport properties is investigated in a model for organic semiconductors gated with polarizable dielectrics. While the bulk electron-phonon interaction affects the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella

Spin-dependent electronic transport through a quantum dot side-coupled to two quantum dots and attached to ferromagnetic leads with collinear (parallel and antiparallel) magnetizations is analyzed theoretically. The intra-dot Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-05 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

In the present work, we theoretically analyze the steady-state thermoelectric transport through a single-molecule junction with a vibrating bridge. Thermally induced charge current in the system is explored using a nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

Based on exactly mapping of a many-body electron-phonon interaction problem onto a one-body problem, we apply the well-established nonequilibrium Green function technique to solve the time-dependent phonon-assisted tunneling at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

We use both a perturbative Green's function analysis and standard perturbative quantum mechanics to calculate the decrease in energy and the effective mass for an electron interacting with acoustic phonons. The interaction is between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-11 Zhou Li , Carl J. Chandler , F. Marsiglio

We theoretically analyzed inelastic effects in the electron transport through molecular junctions originating from electron-vibron interactions. The molecular bridge was simulated by a periodic chain of identical interacting hydrogen-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-03 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Maija M. Kuklja

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li