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We study the electronic contribution to the main thermoelectric properties of a molecular junction consisting of a single quantum dot coupled to graphene external leads. The system electrical conductivity (G), Seebeck coefficient ($S$), and…

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We study thermoelectric transport through double quantum dots system with spin-dependent interdot coupling and ferromagnetic electrodes by means of the non-equilibrium Green function in the linear response regime. It is found that the…

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We study coherent phonon transport through organic, \pi-conjugated molecules. Using first principles calculations and Green's function methods, we find that the phonon transmission function in cross-conjugated molecules, like meta-connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Troels Markussen

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

Novel intrinsic two-dimensional materials have attracted many researchers' attention. The unusual transport and optical properties of these materials originate mainly from triangular lattices (TLs). Therefore, the application of energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 David M T Kuo

Electrical and thermal transport across material interfaces is key for 2D electronics in semiconductor technology, yet their relationship remains largely unknown. We report a theoretical proposal to separate electronic and phononic…

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Electronic and phononic thermal conductivity are involved in the thermal conduction for metals and Wiedemann-Franz law is usually employed to predict them separately. However, Wiedemann-Franz law is shown to be invalid at intermediate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Shouhang Li , Zhen Tong , Xinyu Zhang , Hua Bao

The conductance through a molecular device including electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions is calculated using the Numerical Renormalization Group method. At low temperatures and weak electron-phonon coupling the properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , H. Ness , D. R. Grempel

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay

We have investigated the energy loss of hot electrons in metallic graphene by means of GHz noise thermometry at liquid helium temperature. We observe the electronic temperature T / V at low bias in agreement with the heat diffusion to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 A. C. Betz , F. Vialla , D. Brunel , C. Voisin , M. Picher , A. Cavanna , A. Madouri , G. Fève , J. -M. Berroir , B. Plaçais , E. Pallecchi

We study electronic transport in diatomic molecules connected to metallic contacts in the regime where both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions are important. We find that the competition between these interactions results in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Vernek , E. V. Anda , S. E. Ulloa , N. Sandler

The linear transport properties of a model molecular transistor with electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions were investigated analytically and numerically. The model takes into account phonon modulation of the electronic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , D. R. Grempel , H. Ness

We consider models of heavy fermions in the strong coupling or local moment limit and include phonon degrees of freedom on the conduction electrons. Due to the large mass or low coherence temperature of the heavy fermion state, it is shown…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-02 M. Raczkowski , P. Zhang , F. F. Assaad , T. Pruschke , M. Jarrell

We study the interplay between strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions within a two-orbital molecule coupled to metallic leads, taking into account Holstein-like coupling of a local phonon mode to the molecular charge as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-26 G. I. Luiz , E. Vernek , L. Deng , K. Ingersent , E. V. Anda

By way of the non-equilibrium Green's function simulations and analytical expressions, the quantum thermal conductance of stanene is studied. We find that, due to the existence of Dirac fermion in stanene, the ratio of electron thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-19 Hangbo Zhou , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

Transport through a molecular device coupled to a vibrational mode is studied. By mapping it to the Yu-Anderson model in the large contact broadening limit, the zero bias electric and heat conductances are evaluated non-perturbatively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-05 Balázs Dóra , András Halbritter

The charge and spin-dependent thermoelectric responses are investigated on a single-helical molecule possessing a collinear antiferromagnetic spin arrangement with zero net magnetization in the presence of a transverse electric field. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Kallol Mondal , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a molecule embedded in one arm of a mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Due to the presence of phonons the molecule level position ($\epsilon_d$) and the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Gloria Platero , Pascal Simon

The thermoelectric properties of polythiophene (PT) coupled to the Au (111) electrodes are studied based on density functional theory combined with nonequilibrium Green function formalism. Specially, the effect of Li and Cl adsorbents on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Zahra Golsanamlou , Meysam Bagheri Tagani , Hamid Rahimpour Soleimani

This letter calculates the contribution of electron-phonon interaction to thermoelectric effects in graphene. One considers the case of free standing graphene taking into account interaction with intrinsic acoustic phonons. The temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 S. V. Koniakhin , E. D. Eidelman