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Shuttle-like mechanism of electron transport through a single level vibrating quantum dot is considered in the regime of strong electromechanical coupling. It is shown that the increment of shuttle instability is a nonmonotonic function of…

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Electronic transport in a model molecular device coupled to local phonon modes is theoretically analyzed. The method allows for obtaining an accurate approximation of the system's quantum state irrespective of the electron and phonon energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-10 Antonino La Magna , Ioannis Deretzis

A theoretical model of a single molecule coupled to many vibronic modes is presented. At low energies, transport is dominated by electron-vibron processes where transfer of an electron through the dot is accompanied by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Abdullah Yar , Andrea Donarini , Sonja Koller , Milena Grifoni

A theoretical model of a single molecule coupled to many vibronic modes is presented. At low energies, transport is dominated by electron-vibron processes where transfer of an electron through the dot is accompanied by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Abdullah Yar , Andrea Donarini , Sonja Koller , Milena Grifoni

Electron transport characteristics are investigated through some molecular chains attached to two non-superconducting electrodes by the use of Green's function method. Here we do parametric calculations based on the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-31 Santanu K. Maiti

We study one-electron tunneling through atomic-scale one-dimensional wires in the presence of coherent electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling. We use a full quantum model for the e-ph interaction within the wire with open boundary conditions. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

We investigate the steady-state electronic transport through a suspended dimer molecule coupled to leads. When strongly coupled to a vibrational mode, the electron transport is enhanced at the phonon resonant frequency and higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 D. H. Santamore , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

The energy dissipation and heat flows associated with the particle current in a system with a molecular junction are considered. In this connection, we determine the effective temperature of the molecular oscillator that is compatible with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jan Loos , Thomas Koch , Holger Fehske

We study spin-dependent transport in a suspended carbon nanotube quantum dot in contact with two ferromagnetic leads and with the dot's spin coupled to the flexural mechanical modes. The spin-vibration interaction induces spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Pascal Stadler , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

We investigate the influences of the electron-phonon interaction on the transport properties of one quantum-dot system with a side-coupled Majorana zero mode (MZM). Our calculation results show that at the zero-temperature limit, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Xiao-Qi Wang , B. H. Wu , Shu-Feng Zhang , Qi Wang , Wei-Jiang Gong

We present the first numerically exact study of a polaron with quadratic coupling to the oscillator displacement, using two alternative methodological developments. Our results cover both anti-adiabatic and adiabatic regimes and the entire…

We study the interplay between strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions within a two-orbital molecule coupled to metallic leads, taking into account Holstein-like coupling of a local phonon mode to the molecular charge as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-26 G. I. Luiz , E. Vernek , L. Deng , K. Ingersent , E. V. Anda

We calculate the conductance through strongly correlated T-shaped molecular or quantum dot systems under the influence of phonons. The system is modelled by the extended Anderson-Holstein Hamiltonian. The finite-U mean-field slave boson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 P. Florków , S. Lipiński

We propose a mechanism of energy relaxation for carriers confined in a non-polar quantum dot surrounded by an amorphous polar environment. The carrier transitions are due to their interaction with the oscillating electric field induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-08 A. N. Poddubny , S. V. Goupalov , V. I. Kozub , I. N. Yassievich

Spin polarized transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations is discussed in terms of nonequilibrium Green functions formalism in the finite-U slave boson mean field approximation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński

We analyze the nonequilibrium transport properties of a quantum dot with a harmonic degree of freedom (Holstein phonon) coupled to metallic leads, and derive its full counting statistics (FCS). Using the Lang-Firsov (polaron)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-11 S. Maier , T. L. Schmidt , A. Komnik

We calculate non-perturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular wire-metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at sub-band-gap energies the current is dominated…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

The influence of vibrational motion on electron conduction through single molecules bound to metal electrodes is investigated employing first-principles electronic-structure calculations and projection-operator Green's function methods.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Benesch , M. Thoss , W. Domcke , M. Cizek

We investigate the influence of vibrational phonon modes on the entanglement through a quantum dot molecule under the bias voltage-driven field. The molecular quantum dot system can be realized by coupled quantum dots in the middle of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Elaheh Afsaneh , Malek Bagheri Harouni