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One of the key features of quantum mechanics is the interference of probability amplitudes. The reason for the appearance of interference is mathematically very simple. It is the linear structure of the Hilbert space which is used for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 Martin Stefanak

We discuss the effect of quantum interference on transport through a quantum dot system. We introduce an indirect coherent coupling parameter alpha, which provides constructive/destructive interference in the transport current depending on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Tokura , H. Nakano , T. Kubo

In this paper we study the interplay between interference effects in quantum dots (manifested through the appearance of Fano resonances in the conductance), and interactions taken into account in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Moshe Goldstein , Richard Berkovits

Quantum interference (QI) effects in molecular junctions may be used to obtain large thermoelectric responses. We study the electrical conductance G and the thermoelec- tric response of a series of molecules featuring a quinoid core using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 M. Strange , J. S. Seldenthuis , C. J. O. Verzijl , J. M. Thijssen , G. C. Solomon

We show that two-particle interferences can be used to probe the nuclear motion in a doubly-excited hydrogen molecule. The dissociation of molecular hydrogen by electron impact involves several decay channels, associated to different…

We investigate electron transport through azulene molecule with four distinct electrode contact geometries using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism within the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Employing the Q-matrix approach, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

The effects of different contact geometries, bond dimerization, and gate voltage on quantum transport through a C$_{60}$ molecule are studied by the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula based on the Green's function technique. It is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-12 Alireza Saffarzadeh

Many-electron wavepacket dynamics based on time-dependent configuration interaction (TDCI) is a numerically rigorous approach to quantitatively model electron-transfer across molecular junctions. TDCI simulations of cyanobenzene…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

Conventional information processors freely convert information between different physical carriers to process, store, or transmit information. It seems plausible that quantum information will also be held by different physical carriers in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Yiheng Lin , David R. Leibrandt , Dietrich Leibfried , Chin-wen Chou

In this paper, we explore quantum interference in molecular conductance from the point of view of graph theory and walks on lattices. By virtue of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem for characteristic polynomials and the Coulson-Rushbrooke pairing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Yuta Tsuji , Ernesto Estrada , Ramis Movassagh , Roald Hoffmann

We study electron transport through a triple quantum dot in ring configuration at finite bias. In particular, we analyze the influence of a gate voltage that detunes one of the dots, such that one branch of the interferometer becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 Fernando Domínguez , Gloria Platero , Sigmund Kohler

Molecular transistors have the potential for switching with lower gate voltages than conventional field-effect transistors. We have calculated the performance of a single-molecule device in which there is interference between electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-28 Ying Li , Jan Mol , Simon Benjamin , Andrew Briggs

Since the concepts for the implementation of data storage and logic gates used in conventional electronics cannot be simply downscaled to the level of single molecule devices, new architectural paradigms are needed, where quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Robert Stadler

Quantum interference takes center stage in the realm of quantum particles, playing a crucial role in revealing their wave-like nature and probabilistic behavior. It relies on the concept of superposition, where the probability amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sajad Ahmadi , Mohsen Akbari , Shahpoor Saeidian , Ali Motazedifard

The quantum interference and orbital filling effects on the thermoelectric (TE) properties of quantum dot molecules with high figure of merit are illustrated via the full solution to the Hubbard- Anderson model in the Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Chih-Chieh Chen , David M T Kuo , Yia Chung Chang

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference of fractional quasiparticles in the quantum Hall Effect generally reveals their elementary charge ($e^*$)[1-15]. Recently, our interferometry experiments with several particle states reported flux periods of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Bikash Ghosh , Maria Labendik , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , David F. Mross

Quantum interference between identical single particles reveals the intrinsic quantum statistic nature of particles, which could not be interpreted through classical physics. Here, we demonstrate quantum interference between non-identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Keyu Su , Yi Zhong , Shanchao Zhang , Jianfeng Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Yunfei Wang , Hui Yan , Shi-Liang Zhu

We investigate multi-terminal quantum transport through single monocyclic aromatic annulene molecules, and their derivatives, using the nonequilibrium Green function approach in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. A new device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Cardamone , C. A. Stafford , S. Mazumdar

Using first-principles calculations we analyze the electronic transport properties of a recently proposed anthraquinone based electrochemical switch. Robust conductance on/off ratios of several orders of magnitude are observed due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Troels Markussen , Jakob Schiøtz , Kristian S. Thygesen

We present detailed simulations addressing recent electronic interference experiments, where a metallic gate is used to locally modify the Fermi wave-length of the charge carriers. Our numerical calculations are based on a solution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. P. Jauho , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Sadreev