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We present an ab-initio method to simulate the current noise in the presence of electron-vibration interactions in atomic and molecular junctions at finite temperature. Using a combination of nonequilibrium Keldysh Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 S. G. Bahoosh , M. A. Karimi , W. Belzig , E. Scheer , F. Pauly

The effect of electron-phonon coupling on the current noise in a molecular junction is investigated within a simple model. The model comprises a 1-level bridge representing a molecular level that connects between two free electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

We investigate the effects of phonon scattering on the electronic current noise through nanojunctions using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism extended to include the counting field. In the case of weak electron-phonon coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-28 Federica Haupt , Tomas Novotny , Wolfgang Belzig

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

We investigate the effects of local vibrational excitations in the nonsymmetrized current noise $S(\omega)$ of a nanojunction. For this purpose, we analyze a simple model - the Holstein model - in which the junction is described by a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Pascal Stadler , Gianluca Rastelli , Wolfgang Belzig

By using nonequilibrium Green's functions and the equation of motion method, we formulate a self-consistent field theory for the electron transport through a single molecular junction (SMJ) coupled with a vibrational mode. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We study inelastic electron tunneling through a molecular junction using the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. The effect of the mutual influence between the phonon and the electron subsystems on the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

The influence of multiple vibrational modes on current fluctuations in electron transport through single-molecule junctions is investigated. Our analysis is based on a generic model of a molecular junction, which comprises a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 C. Schinabeck , R. Härtle , H. B. Weber , M. Thoss

We study backaction effects of phonon heating due to tunneling electrons on the current noise in atomic-sized junctions. Deriving a generalized kinetic approximation within the extended Keldysh Green's functions technique, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Tomas Novotny , Federica Haupt , Wolfgang Belzig

We describe an implementation of ab-initio methodology to compute inelastic shot noise signals due to electron-vibration scattering in nanoscale junctions. The method is based on the framework of non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's functions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 R. Avriller , T. Frederiksen

We present a comprehensive theoretical treatment of the effect of electron-phonon interactions in molecular transistors, including both quantal and classical limits and we study both equilibrated and out of equilibrium phonons. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mitra , I. Aleiner , A. J. Millis

Noise measurements are a probe beyond simple electronic transport that can reveal additional information about electronic correlations and inelastic processes. Here we report noise measurements in individual electromigrated nanojunctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 P. J. Wheeler , Ruoyu Chen. , D. Natelson

We present a combined theoretical approach to study the nonequilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes and exhibiting strong electron-phonon interactions. We use the Keldysh Green function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Monreal , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

Experimental measurements of electron transport properties of molecular junctions are often performed in solvents. Solvent-molecule coupling and physical properties of the solvent can be used as the external stimulus to control electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Maxim F. Gelin , Daniel S. Kosov

We present measurements of current noise in quantum point contacts as a function of source-drain bias, gate voltage, and in-plane magnetic field. At zero bias, Johnson noise provides a measure of the electron temperature. At finite bias,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. DiCarlo , Yiming Zhang , D. T. McClure , D. J. Reilly , C. M. Marcus , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

The study of electron-phonon interaction as a prominent inelastic effect is of great importance. In the present work, we have studied the inelastic effects due to the first order electron-phonon interactions on electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Mujtaba Zahidy , Fatemeh Ghadirian , Afshin Namiranian

We study the zero-frequency current noise of the interacting resonant level model for arbitrary bias voltages using a functional renormalization group approach. For this we extend the existing nonequilibrium scheme by deriving and solving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-08 T. J. Suzuki , D. M. Kennes , V. Meden

Within a phonon-assisted resonance level model we develop a self-consistent procedure for calculating electron transport currents in molecular junctions with intermediate to strong electron-phonon interaction. The scheme takes into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

We study current correlation functions in a diffusive junction out of equilibrium. We calculate corrections to the electric current and to the zero frequency shot noise due to electron-electron interactions. Contrary to the equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-23 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen

We analyze the effect of Coulomb interaction on the noise of electric current through an open quantum dot. We demonstrate that the ensemble average value of the noise power acquires an interaction correction even for a dot coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-15 G. Catelani , M. G. Vavilov
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