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Electronic transport in a model molecular device coupled to local phonon modes is theoretically analyzed. The method allows for obtaining an accurate approximation of the system's quantum state irrespective of the electron and phonon energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-10 Antonino La Magna , Ioannis Deretzis

We investigate the transient effects occurring in a molecular quantum dot described by an Anderson-Holstein Hamiltonian which is instantly coupled to two fermionic leads biased by a finite voltage. In the limit of weak electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-30 R. -P. Riwar , T. L. Schmidt

We consider a molecular single electron transistor coupled to a vibrational mode. For some values of the bias and gate voltage transport is possible only by absorption of one ore more phonons. The system acts then as a cooler for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-06 Fabio Pistolesi

We study the model of a molecular switch comprised of a molecule with a soft vibrational degree of freedom coupled to metallic leads. In the presence of strong electron-ion interaction, different charge states of the molecule correspond to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Fabio Pistolesi , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Ivar Martin

Molecular vibrations play a critical role in the charge transport properties of weakly van der Waals bonded organic semiconductors. To understand which specific phonon modes contribute most strongly to the electron-phonon coupling and…

We present a detailed study of the conduction properties of a molecular wire where hopping processes between electronic sites are coupled to a vibrational mode of the molecule. The latter is sandwiched between two electronic leads at finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Simon Pigeon , Lorenzo Fusco , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

Path-integral approach to the tight-binding polaron is extended to multiple optical phonon modes of arbitrary dispersion and polarization. The non-linear lattice effects are neglected. Only one electron band is considered. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Kornilovitch

We investigate the influence of vibrational phonon modes on the entanglement through a quantum dot molecule under the bias voltage-driven field. The molecular quantum dot system can be realized by coupled quantum dots in the middle of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Elaheh Afsaneh , Malek Bagheri Harouni

In this work, a new theoretical approach to study the non-equilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes with strong electron-phonon interactions is presented. The proposed approach consists in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 R. Seoane Souto , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , R. C. Monreal

The interplay between nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom strongly influences molecular charge transport. Herein, we report on transport through a porphyrin dimer molecule, weakly coupled to graphene electrodes, that displays…

Electron transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to Luttinger liquid leads is considered in the master equation approach. It is shown that for a weak or moderately strong interaction the differential conductance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-06 G. A. Skorobagatko , I. V. Krive

A theoretical model of a single molecule coupled to many vibronic modes is presented. At low energies, transport is dominated by electron-vibron processes where transfer of an electron through the dot is accompanied by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Abdullah Yar , Andrea Donarini , Sonja Koller , Milena Grifoni

A theoretical model of a single molecule coupled to many vibronic modes is presented. At low energies, transport is dominated by electron-vibron processes where transfer of an electron through the dot is accompanied by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Abdullah Yar , Andrea Donarini , Sonja Koller , Milena Grifoni

We consider a quantum dot, affected by a local vibrational mode and contacted to macroscopic leads, in the non-equilibrium steady-state regime. We apply a variational Lang-Firsov transformation and solve the equations of motion of the Green…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Koch , J. Loos , A. Alvermann , H. Fehske

We consider a model Hamiltonian for a dimer including all the electronic one- and two-body terms consistent with a single orbital per site, a free Einstein phonon term, and an electron-phonon coupling of the Holstein type. The bare…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Acquarone , J. R. Iglesias , M. A. Gusmao , C. Noce , A. Romano

We investigate electron transport through a mixed-valence molecular complex in which an excess electron can tunnel between hetero-valent transition metal ions, each having a fixed localized spin. We show that in this class of molecules the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-11 F. Reckermann , M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs

The influence of multiple vibrational modes on current fluctuations in electron transport through single-molecule junctions is investigated. Our analysis is based on a generic model of a molecular junction, which comprises a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 C. Schinabeck , R. Härtle , H. B. Weber , M. Thoss

Motivated by recent experiments on electric transport through single molecules and quantum dots, we investigate a model for transport that allows for significant coupling between the electrons and a boson mode isolated on the molecule or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Urban Lundin , Ross H. McKenzie

We study polarons in the one-dimensional Bond-Peierls electron-phonon model, in which phonons on bonds of a lattice modulate the hopping of electrons between lattice sites, and contrast the results to those known for the Breathing-Mode…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Matthew R. Carbone , Andrew J. Millis , David R. Reichman , John Sous

In this work, we have investigated conduction through an artificial molecule comprising two coupled quantum dots. The question addressed is the role of inter-dot coupling on electronic transport. We find that the current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-22 M. Imran , B. Tariq , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh