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Charge transport through a nanoscale junction coupled to two macroscopic electrodes is investigated for the situation when bound states are present. We provide numerical evidence that bound states give rise to persistent, non-decaying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Khosravi , S. Kurth , G. Stefanucci , E. K. U. Gross

The transport properties of a conduction junction model characterized by two mutually coupled channels that strongly differ in their couplings to the leads are investigated. Models of this type describe molecular redox junctions (where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Alexander J. White , Agostino Migliore , Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan

In this paper, we have explored the charge transfer mechanism in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) quantum dots (QDs) of molybdenum disulfide ($\rm{MoS_2}$) and tungsten disulfide ($\rm{WS_2}$). Rhodamine 6G (R6G), a dye from the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Praveen Mishra , Arun Singh Patel , Sanjay Kumar Chauhan , Anirban Chakraborti

We present a realistic theoretical treatment of a three-level $\Lambda$ system in a hot atomic vapor interacting with a coupling and a probe field of arbitrary strengths, leading to electromagnetically-induced transparency and slow light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joyee Ghosh , R. Ghosh , F. Goldfarb , J. -L. Le Gouët , F. Bretenaker

(Dated: July 17, 2017) We calculate the electric charge current flowing through a vibrating molecular nanojunction, which is driven by an ac voltage, in its regime of nonlinear oscillations. Without loss of generality, we model the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Vicente Leyton , Stephan Weiss , Michael Thorwart

We investigate electronic transport through two types of conjugated molecules. Mechanically controlled break-junctions are used to couple thiol endgroups of single molecules to two gold electrodes. Current-voltage characteristics (IVs) of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Reichert , R. Ochs , D. Beckmann , H. B. Weber , M. Mayor , H. v. Loehneysen

Signals recorded from neurons with extracellular planar sensors have a wide range of waveforms and amplitudes. This variety is a result of different physical conditions affecting the ion currents through a cellular membrane. The…

We describe recent developments in the hybrid atomistic/continuum modelling of dense fluids. We discuss the general implementation of mass, momentum and energy transfers between a region described by molecular dynamics and the neighbouring…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Delgado-Buscalioni , P. V. Coveney

Understanding how the mechanism of charge transport through molecular tunnel junctions depends on temperature is crucial to control electronic function in molecular electronic devices. With just a few systems investigated as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Alvar R. Garrigues , Lejia Wang , Enrique del Barco , Christian A. Nijhuis

We obtain and analyze the effect of electron-electron Coulomb interaction on the time dependent current flowing through a mesoscopic system connected to biased semi-infinite leads. We assume the contact is gradually switched on in time and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

We propose a dynamic mechanism for the reversible regulation of photosynthesis in varying light environments. We employ a three-level quantum model to take into account the correlations between charge donors and charge acceptors immediately…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Guang Yang , Gen Tatara

We present an implementation of a new method for explicit simulations of time-dependent electric currents through nanojunctions. The method is based on unitary propagation of stroboscopic wave packet states and is designed to treat open…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Konôpka , P. Bokes

A light-driven molecular motor system is investigated using a multi-state Brownian ratchet model described by a single effective coordinate with multiple electronic states in a dissipative environment. The rotational motion of the motor…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Tatsushi Ikeda , Arend G. Dijkstra , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Vibrationally inelastic electron transport through a molecular bridge that is connected to two leads is investigated. The study is based on a generic model of vibrational excitation in resonant transmission of electrons through a molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Cizek , Michael Thoss , Wolfgang Domcke

We develop a new three-dimensional multiparticle Monte Carlo ({\it 3DmpMC}) approach in order to study the hopping charge transport in disordered organic molecular media. The approach is applied here to study the charge transport across an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Houili , E. Tutis , I. Batistic , L. Zuppiroli

We investigate on the same footing the time-dependent electronic transport properties and vibrational dynamics of a molecular junction. We show that fluctuations of both the molecular vibron displacement and the electronic current across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Rémi Avriller , R Souto , A. Martin-Rodero , A Yeyati

A kinetic model of the electron transfer at the electrode / electrolyte solution interface is developed, implemented in a Monte Carlo framework, and applied to simulate this process in idealised systems consisting of the primitive model of…

Molecule-electrode interfaces in molecular electronic junctions are prone to chemical reactions, structural changes, and localized heating effects caused by electric current. These can be exploited for device functionality or may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Riley J. Preston , Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

Diffusion-driven processes are important phenomena of materials science in the field of energy conversion and transmission. During the conversion from chemical energy to electrical energy, the species diffusion is generally linked to the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Jay Santoki

The rapid turn-on of a strong, resonant, continuous wave laser field may trigger the formation of a transient oscillation akin to a train of damped solitons, before the vapor-field system relaxes into a stationary state. We study this…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 B. S. Cartwright , S. A. Wrathmall , R. M. Potvliege