Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale

P Hänggi, F Marchesoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined
with unbiased external input signals, deterministic and random alike, can assist directed …

Driven quantum transport on the nanoscale

S Kohler, J Lehmann, P Hänggi - Physics Reports, 2005 - Elsevier
We explore the prospects to control by use of time-dependent fields quantum transport
phenomena in nanoscale systems. In particular, we study for driven conductors the electron …

Brownian motors

P Hänggi, F Marchesoni, F Nori - Annalen der Physik, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In systems possessing a spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, thermal Brownian motion
combined with unbiased, non‐equilibrium noise gives rise to a channelling of chance that …

Molecular optoelectronics: the interaction of molecular conduction junctions with light

M Galperin, A Nitzan - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The interaction of light with molecular conduction junctions is attracting growing interest as a
challenging experimental and theoretical problem on one hand, and because of its potential …

Green-function approach to transport phenomena in quantum pumps

L Arrachea - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
We present a general treatment based on nonequilibrium Green functions to study transport
phenomena in systems described by tight-binding Hamiltonians coupled to reservoirs and …

Theory of vibrationally inelastic electron transport through molecular bridges

M Čížek, M Thoss, W Domcke - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2004 - APS
Vibrationally inelastic electron transport through a molecular bridge that is connected to two
leads is investigated. The study is based on a generic model of vibrational excitation in …

The influence of ultrafast laser pulses on electron transfer in molecular wires studied by a non-Markovian density-matrix approach

S Welack, M Schreiber, U Kleinekathöfer - The Journal of chemical …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
New features of molecular wires can be observed when they are irradiated by laser fields.
These effects can be achieved by periodically oscillating fields but also by short laser …

Electrically driven spin currents in DNA

D Rai, M Galperin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013 - ACS Publications
We consider the generation of pure spin currents by electric field driving. First, we discuss
the possibility of spin pum** by electric field within a simple two-level bridge model. Then …

Ab initio study of the alternating current impedance of a molecular junction

R Baer, T Seideman, S Ilani… - The Journal of chemical …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The small-bias conductance of the C6 molecule, stretched between two metallic leads, is
studied using time-dependent density functional theory within the adiabatic local density …

Optical properties of current carrying molecular wires

M Galperin, A Nitzan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We consider several fundamental optical phenomena involving single molecules in biased
metal-molecule-metal junctions. The molecule is represented by its highest occupied and …