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We present a theory of tunneling and resonant transitions in one-dimensional molecular systems which is based on Green's function theory of electron sub-barrier scattering off the structural units (or functional groups) of a molecular…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. I. Oleynik , M. A. Kozhushner , V. S. Posvyanskii

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li

We theoretically study the resonant tunneling and Fano resonance in quantum dots with electron-phonon (e-ph) interaction. We examine the bias-voltage ($V$) dependence of the decoherence, using Keldysh Green function method and perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Akiko Ueda , Mikio Eto

We report first principles analysis of electron-phonon coupling in molecular devices under external bias voltage and during current flow. Our theory and computational framework are based carrying out density functional theory within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Sergueev , D. Roubtsov , Hong Guo

The expression for additional subgap current in the presence of electron-phonon interaction is derived. We show that the phonon assisted tunneling leads to appearance of peaks on current-voltage characteristics at the Josephson frequencies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. G. Maksimov , P. I. Arseyev , N. S. Maslova

A self-consistent method for calculating electron transport through a molecular device is proposed. It is based on density functional theory electronic structure calculations under periodic boundary conditions and implemented in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

We study inelastic effects on the electronic current noise in molecular junctions, due to the coupling between transport electrons and vibrational degrees of freedom. Using a full counting statistics approach based on the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Federica Haupt , Tomas Novotny , Wolfgang Belzig

A resolvent formalism is applied to the problem of inelastic scattering of an electron linearly coupled to a set of phonon modes. It is shown how the many phonon mode coupling and excitation can be reduced to a single phonon mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Gata

Based on exactly mapping of a many-body electron-phonon interaction problem onto a one-body problem, we apply the well-established nonequilibrium Green function technique to solve the time-dependent phonon-assisted tunneling at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

Computationally inexpensive approximations describing electron-phonon scattering in molecular-scale conductors are derived from the non-equilibrium Green's function method. The accuracy is demonstrated with a first principles calculation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Magnus Paulsson , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

The electronic structure of organic-inorganic interfaces often feature resonances originating from discrete molecular orbitals coupled to continuum lead states. An example are molecular junctions, individual molecules bridging electrodes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Zhenfei Liu , Jeffrey B. Neaton

Our objective is to study resonant tunneling of an electron in the presence of inelastic scattering by optical phonons. Using a recently developed technique, based on exact mapping of a many-body problem onto a one-body problem, we compute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Haule , J. Bonca

In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport of a double quantum dot coupled with a nanomechanical resonator at arbitrary strong electron-phonon coupling regimes. We employ the generalized quantum master equation to study full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-22 Chen Wang , Jie Ren , Baowen Li , Qing-Hu Chen

We consider a transmission line resonator which is driven by electrons tunneling through a voltage-biased tunnel junction. Using the Born-Markovian quantum master equation in the polaron basis we investigate the nonequilibrium photon state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Jinshuang Jin , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

Correlation effects in the transport properties of a single quantum level coupled to electron reservoirs are discussed theoretically using a non-equilibrium Green functions approach. Our method is based on the introduction of a second-order…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , F. Flores

We have presented a consistent electronic transport framework for the two-dimensional extended Holstein's organic molecular-crystal based upon complete quantum-mechanical treatment through the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Bhupesh Bishnoi

A theory for boson-assisted tunneling via randomly distributed resonant states in a layered metals is developed. As particular examples, we consider the electron-phonon interaction and the interaction between localized and conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-22 D. B. Gutman , D. L. Maslov

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 theoretically analyze phonon-assisted tunneling transport in a quantum dot side connected to a Majorana bound state in a topological superconducting nanowire. We investigate the behavior of the current through the dot, for a range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Levente Máthé , Zoltán Kovács-Krausz , Ioan Botiz , Ioan Grosu , Khadija El Anouz , Abderrahim El Allati , Liviu P. Zârbo

We treat a tunneling electron coupled to acoustical phonons through a realistic electron phonon interaction: deformation potential and piezoelectric, in two or three-dimensional tunneling configurations. Making use of slowness of the phonon…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Pazy , B. Laikhtman