Molecular-scale electronics: from concept to function

D Xiang, X Wang, C Jia, T Lee, X Guo - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Creating functional electrical circuits using individual or ensemble molecules, often termed
as “molecular-scale electronics”, not only meets the increasing technical demands of the …

Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Shot noise in mesoscopic systems: From single particles to quantum liquids

K Kobayashi, M Hashisaka - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2021 - journals.jps.jp
Shot noise, originating from the discrete nature of electric charge, is generated by scattering
processes. Shot-noise measurements have revealed microscopic charge dynamics in …

[HTML][HTML] Green's function methods for single molecule junctions

G Cohen, M Galperin - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present a brief pedagogical review of theoretical Green's function methods applicable to
open quantum systems out of equilibrium, in general, and single molecule junctions, in …

Full counting statistics of vibrationally assisted electronic conduction: Transport and fluctuations of thermoelectric efficiency

BK Agarwalla, JH Jiang, D Segal - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study the statistical properties of charge and energy transport in electron conducting
junctions with electron-phonon interactions, specifically, the thermoelectric efficiency and its …

[HTML][HTML] A many-body approach to transport in quantum systems: from the transient regime to the stationary state

M Ridley, NW Talarico, D Karlsson… - Journal of Physics A …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent
correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) …

Theory of light emission from quantum noise in plasmonic contacts: Above-threshold emission from higher-order electron-plasmon scattering

K Kaasbjerg, A Nitzan - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We develop a theoretical framework for the description of light emission from plasmonic
contacts based on the nonequilibrium Green function formalism. Our theory establishes a …

Vibrational cooling, heating, and instability in molecular conducting junctions: full counting statistics analysis

L Simine, D Segal - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We study current-induced vibrational cooling, heating, and instability in a donor–acceptor
rectifying molecular junction using a full counting statistics approach. In our model, electron …

Shot noise of 1, 4-benzenedithiol single-molecule junctions

MA Karimi, SG Bahoosh, M Herz, R Hayakawa… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report measurements of the shot noise on single-molecule Au–1, 4-benzenedithiol–Au
junctions, fabricated with the mechanically controllable break junction (MCBJ) technique at …

Path-integral simulations with fermionic and bosonic reservoirs: Transport and dissipation in molecular electronic junctions

L Simine, D Segal - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We expand iterative numerically exact influence functional path-integral tools and present a
method capable of following the nonequilibrium time evolution of subsystems coupled to …