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Employing the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we develop a fully quantum mechanical model to study the coupled electron-phonon transport in one-dimensional atomic junctions in the presence of a weak electron-phonon interaction. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 J. T. Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang

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

The linear thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions are theoretically studied close to room temperature within a model including electron-electron and electron-vibration interactions on the molecule. A nonequilibrium adiabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 C. A. Perroni , D. Ninno , V. Cataudella

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

Here we present a theoretical study of the thermoelectric transport through {[}2,2{]}para\-cyclo\-phane-based single-molecule junctions. Combining electronic and vibrational structures, obtained from density functional theory (DFT), with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marius Bürkle , Thomas J. Hellmuth , Fabian Pauly , Yoshihiro Asai

Thermoelectric properties of a two-level molecule attached to the metallic electrodes are analyzed using the equation of motion technique within the Green function formalism. Results show that the electrical conductance is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

Here we present a theoretical analysis of inelastic effects on thermoelectric properties of molecular-scale junction in both linear and nonlinear response regimes. Considered device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Kamil Walczak

We study thermoelectric transport through a coherent molecular conductor connected to two electron and two phonon baths using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We focus on the mutual drag between electron and phonon transport as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

We present a formulation of a nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal current in nanojunction atomic systems with nonlinear interactions. This first-principle approach is applied to the calculation of the thermal conductance in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jian Wang , Nan Zeng

Motivated by recent experiments, we present here an ab initio study of the impact of the phonon transport on the thermal conductance and thermoelectric figure of merit of C$_{60}$-based single-molecule junctions. To be precise, we combine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Jan Christopher Klöckner , Robert Siebler , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Fabian Pauly

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We employ the functional renormalization group to study the effects of phonon-assisted tunneling on the nonequilibrium steady-state transport through a single level molecular quantum dot coupled to electronic leads. Within the framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-18 A. Khedri , T. A. Costi , V. Meden

We study the electronic transport in a molecular junction in which each site is coupled to a local phonon bath using the non-equilibrium Green's function method. We observe the length period of the oscillatory conductance in odd-numbered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-12 Ya-Lin Lo , Shih-Jye Sun , Ying-Jer Kao

We present a detailed study of the non-linear thermoelectric properties of a molecular junction, represented by a dissipative Anderson-Holstein model. A single orbital level with strong Coulomb interaction is coupled to a localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs , K. Flensberg

The phonon and electron transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are investigated using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach. In zigzag SWCNT ($n$, 0) with $mod(n,3)\not=0$, the thermal conductance is mainly attributed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 Jin-Wu Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

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

The calculation of the nonlinear conductance of a single-molecule junction is revisited. The self energy on the junction resulting from the electron-phonon interaction has at low temperatures logarithmic singularities (in the real part) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , Y. Imry , A. Aharony

We study the statistical properties of charge and energy transport in electron conducting junctions with electron-phonon interactions, specifically, the thermoelectric efficiency and its fluctuations. The system comprises donor and acceptor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

Nonequilibrium multi-carrier thermal transport is essential for both scientific research and technological applications in electronic, spintronic, and energy conversion devices. This article reviews the fundamentals of phonon, electron,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-18 Te-Huan Liu , Tianyu Wang , Jun Zhou , Xin Qian , Ronggui Yang

The resonant tunneling model is the simplest model for describing electronic transport through nanoscale objects like individual molecules. A complete understanding includes not only charge transport but also thermal transport and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Matthias A. Popp , André Erpenbeck , Heiko B. Weber
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