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Quantum inelastic conductance through molecular wires

Ness, H; Fisher, AJ; (1999) Quantum inelastic conductance through molecular wires. Physical Review Letters , 83 (2) , Article 452. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.452. Green open access

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Abstract

We calculate nonperturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular-wire–metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at subband-gap energies the current is dominated by quantum coherent transport of virtual polarons through the molecule. In this regime, the tunneling current is strongly increased relative to the case of elastic scattering. It is essential to describe the full quantum coherence of the polaron formation and transport in order to obtain correct physics. Our results are generally applicable to one-dimensional atomic or molecular wires.

Type: Article
Title: Quantum inelastic conductance through molecular wires
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.452
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.452
Language: English
Additional information: © 1999 The American Physical Society
Keywords: molecular
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/66582
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