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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…

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We analyze the interplay between vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom in charge transport across a molecular single-electron transistor. We focus on the wide class of molecules which possess quasi-degenerate vibrational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

Graphene electrodes are promising candidates to improve reproducibility and stability in molecular electronics through new electrode-molecule anchoring strategies. Here we report sequential electron transport in few-layer graphene…

We consider the interaction between electrons and molecular vibrations in the context of electronic transport in nanoscale devices. We present a method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions to calculate both equilibrium and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 L. K. Dash , H. Ness , R. W. Godby

We describe how to treat the interaction of travelling electrons with localised vibrational modes in nanojunctions. We present a multichannel scattering technique which can be applied to calculate the transport properties for realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

We investigate the transient nonequilibrium dynamics of a molecular junction biased by a finite voltage and strongly coupled to internal vibrational degrees of freedom. Using two different, numerical exact techniques, diagrammatic Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Klaus Ferdinand Albrecht , Haobin Wang , Lothar Muehlbacher , Michael Thoss , Andreas Komnik

We theoretically study electronic transport through a layer of quantum dots connecting two metallic leads. By the inclusion of an inductor in series with the junction, we show that steady electronic transport in such a system may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-14 Danko Radic , Anatoly M. Kadigrobov , Leonid Y. Gorelik , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

As a step towards a more realistic modeling of vibrations in single-molecule devices, we investigate the effects of charge-dependent vibrational frequencies and anharmonic potentials on electronic transport. For weak phonon relaxation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Koch , Felix von Oppen

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

Quantum transport of electrons through a molecule is a series of individual electron tunnelling events separated by stochastic waiting time intervals. We study the emergence of temporal correlations between successive waiting times for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Daniel S. Kosov

The inelastic scattering of electrons which carry current through a single-molecule junction is modeled by a quantum dot, coupled to electron reservoirs via two leads. When the electron is on the dot, it is coupled to a single harmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 O. Entin-Wohlman , Y. Imry , A. Aharony

In this contribution we demonstrate structural control over a transport resonance in HS(CH$_{2}$)$_{n}$[1,4 - C$_{6}$H$_{4}$](CH$_{2}$)$_{n}$SH (n = 1, 3, 4, 6) metal - molecule - metal junctions, fabricated and tested using the scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carly Brooke , Andrea Vezzoli , Simon J. Higgins , Linda A. Zotti , J. J. Palacios , Richard J. Nichols

We study inelastic vibration-assisted charge transfer effects in two-site molecular junctions, focusing on signatures of vibrational anharmonicity on the electrical characteristics and the thermoelectric response of the junction. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-27 Hava Meira Friedman , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

On the elementary level, electronic current consists of individual electron tunnelling events that are separated by random time intervals. The waiting time distribution is a probability to observe the electron transfer in the detector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Daniel S. Kosov

We study charge and energy transfer in two-site molecular electronic junctions in which electron transport is assisted by a vibrational mode. To understand the role of mode harmonicity/anharmonicity on transport behavior, we consider two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

Here we present theoretical studies of the effect of vibronic coupling on nonlinear transport characteristics (current-voltage and conductance-voltage) in molecular electronic devices. Considered device is composed of molecular quantum dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kamil Walczak

We consider the nonequilibrium quantum vibrations of a molecule clamped between two macroscopic leads in a current-carrying state at finite voltages. Our approach is based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Ryndyk , M. Hartung , G. Cuniberti

We show how one can measure the signal from slow jumps of a single molecule between metastable positions using a setup where the molecule is fixed to one lead, and one of the coupling strengths is controlled externally. Such a measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Tero T. Heikkila , Wolfgang Belzig

Electronic-vibrational coupling in single-molecule junctions may result in current-induced bond rupture and is thus an important mechanism for the stability of molecular junctions. We use the hierarchical quantum master equation (HQME)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Andre Erpenbeck , Christian Schinabeck , Uri Peskin , Michael Thoss

We analyse theoretically a relation between the vibrational generation rate of a single adsorbate by tunneling electrons and the inelastic tunneling (IET) current in scanning tunneling microscope, and the influence of the vibrational…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 S. G. Tikhodeev , H. Ueba