Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

Conspectus Understanding the thermoelectric effects that convert energy between heat and
electricity on a molecular scale is of great interest to the nanoscience community. As …

Recent studies have developed fundamental limitations on nanoscale thermodynamics, in
terms of a set of independent free energy relations. Here we show that free energy relations …

The first law of thermodynamics imposes not just a constraint on the energy content of
systems in extreme quantum regimes but also symmetry constraints related to the …

Quantum coherence is an essential ingredient in quantum information processing and plays
a central role in emergent fields such as nanoscale thermodynamics and quantum biology …

We review recent theoretical work on thermoelectric energy harvesting in multi-terminal
quantum-dot setups. We first discuss several examples of nanoscale heat engines based on …

Quantifying coherence is a key task in both quantum-mechanical theory and practical
applications. Here, a reliable quantum coherence measure is presented by utilizing the …

Molecular junctions hold significant promise for efficient and high-power-output
thermoelectric energy conversion,,. Recent experiments have probed the thermoelectric …

Molecules are predicted to be chemically tunable towards high thermoelectric efficiencies
and they could outperform existing materials in the field of energy conversion. However …

Atomic and single-molecule junctions represent the ultimate limit to the miniaturization of
electrical circuits. They are also ideal platforms for testing quantum transport theories that …