Creating designer quantum states of matter atom-by-atom

AA Khajetoorians, D Wegner, AF Otte, I Swart - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution and spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy, as well as
atomic-scale manipulation, have enabled the bottom-up, atom-by-atom creation and …

Inelastic transport theory from first principles: Methodology and application to nanoscale devices

T Frederiksen, M Paulsson, M Brandbyge… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We describe a first-principles method for calculating electronic structure, vibrational modes
and frequencies, electron-phonon couplings, and inelastic electron transport properties of …

Charge transport through molecular switches

SJ van der Molen, P Liljeroth - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the fascinating research on charge transport through switchable molecules. In the
past decade, detailed investigations have been performed on a great variety of molecular …

Molecular transport junctions: Clearing mists

SM Lindsay, MA Ratner - Advanced Materials, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in the measurement and modeling of transport in molecular junctions has
been very significant. Tunnel transport in the Landauer–Imry regime is now broadly …

Spectroscopic manifestations of the Kondo effect on single adatoms

M Ternes, AJ Heinrich… - Journal of Physics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The present topical review focuses on recent advances concerning an intriguing
phenomenon in condensed matter physics, the scattering of conduction electrons at the …