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Currently, molecular tunnel junctions are recognized as important active elements of various nanodevices. This gives a strong motivation to study physical mechanisms controlling electron transport through molecules. Electron motion through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We present a new formulation of the correlated electron-ion dynamics (CEID) by using equations of motion for nonequilibrium Green's functions, which generalizes CEID to a general nonequilibrium statistical ensemble that allows for a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Yu Wang

We present an ab-initio method to simulate the current noise in the presence of electron-vibration interactions in atomic and molecular junctions at finite temperature. Using a combination of nonequilibrium Keldysh Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 S. G. Bahoosh , M. A. Karimi , W. Belzig , E. Scheer , F. Pauly

Molecular excited vibrational states are metastable states and we incorporate their finite lifetimes into the theory of vibrational energy transfer between weakly interacting molecules, i.e., at internuclear distances at which they do not…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Lorenz S. Cederbaum

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 present an analysis of the transient electronic and transport properties of a nanojunction in the presence of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. We introduce a novel numerical approach which allows for an efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 R. Seoane Souto , R. Avriller , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero

We propose an alternative to the usual time--independent Born--Oppenheimer approximation that is specifically designed to describe molecules with non--symmetrical hydrogen bonds. In our approach, the masses of the hydrogen nuclei are scaled…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 George A. Hagedorn , Alain Joye

We present a theoretical framework to describe experiments directed to controlling single-atom spin dynamics by electrical means using a scanning tunneling microscope. We propose a simple model consisting of a quantum impurity connected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Jose Reina-Gálvez , Nicolás Lorente , Fernando Delgado , Liliana Arrachea

Long range frequency chirping of Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes, whose existence is determined by the fast particles, is investigated in cases where these particles do not move freely and their motion is bounded to restricted orbits. An…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 H. Hezaveh , Z. S. Qu , B. Layden , M. J. Hole

We develop nonequilibribrium Green's function based transport theory, which includes effects of nonadiabatic nuclear motion in the calculation of the electric current in molecular junctions. Our approach is based on the separation of slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

We present a microscopic theory of bipolar quantum well structures in the photovoltaic regime, based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism for a multi band tight binding Hamiltonian. The quantum kinetic equations for the single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 U. Aeberhard , R. H. Morf

We propose a novel approach to calculate dynamical processes at ultrafast time scale in molecules in which vibrational and electronic motions are strongly mixed. The relevant electronic orbitals and their interactions are described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Arrachea , A. A. Aligia , G. E. Santoro

We study the equilibrium and nonequilibrium electronic transport properties of multiprobe topological systems using a combination of the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach and nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques. We obtain general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio Lewenkopf

(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 study dynamic nonequilibrium electron charging phenomena in ballistic molecular devices at room temperature that compromise their response to bias and whose nature is evidently distinguishable from static Schottky-type potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

We study the I-V characteristic of mesoscopic systems or Quantum dot attached of a pair of superconducting leads. Interaction effects in the quantum dot are considered through the charging energy of the quantum dot; the treatment of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 David Verrilli , F. P. Marin , Rafael Rangel

We theoretically analyze the spectrum of a magnetic molecule when its charge and spin can couple to the molecular vibrations. More specifically, we show that the interplay between charge-vibron and spin-vibron coupling leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Ahmed Kenawy , Janine Splettstoesser , Maciej Misiorny

The linear conductance of a molecular conductor oscillating between two metallic leads is investigated numerically both for Hubbard interacting and noninteracting electrons. The molecule-leads tunneling barriers depend on the molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. A. Al-Hassanieh , C. A. Büsser , G. B. Martins , E. Dagotto

A theoretical investigation of the dissociative excitation by electron impact on the NO molecule is presented, aiming to make up for the lack of data for this process in the literature. A full set of vibrationally-resolved cross sections…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 V. Laporta , J. Tennyson , I. F. Schneider

Bound state in continuum (BIC) might appear in open quantum dots for variation of the dot's shape. By means of the equations of motion of Green functions we investigate effect of strong intradot Coulomb interactions on that phenomenon in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. F. Sadreev , T. V. Babushkina