Vibrational inelastic scattering effects in molecular electronics
arXiv:cond-mat/0603494 · doi:10.1073/pnas.0500389102
Abstract
We describe how to treat the interaction of travelling electrons with localised vibrational modes in nanojunctions. We present a multichannel scattering technique which can be applied to calculate the transport properties for realistic systems, and show how it is related to other methods that are useful in particular cases. We apply our technique to describe recent experiments on the conductance through molecular junctions.
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