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 …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: Theory of quantum transport in molecular junctions

M Thoss, F Evers - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular junctions, where single molecules are bound to metal or semiconductor
electrodes, represent a unique architecture to investigate molecules in a distinct …

Toward GW Calculations on Thousands of Atoms

J Wilhelm, D Golze, L Talirz, J Hutter… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The GW approximation of many-body perturbation theory is an accurate method for
computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. In a canonical …

[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 …

Helical orbitals and circular currents in linear carbon wires

MH Garner, A Jensen, LOH Hyllested… - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Disubstituted odd-carbon cumulenes are linear carbon wires with near-degenerate helical π-
orbitals. Such cumulenes are chiral molecules but their electronic structure consists of …

Spin–Orbit Torque in Single-Molecule Junctions from ab Initio

M Camarasa-Gómez… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The use of electric fields applied across magnetic heterojunctions that lack spatial inversion
symmetry has been previously proposed as a nonmagnetic means of controlling localized …

Three distinct torsion profiles of electronic transmission through linear carbon wires

MH Garner, W Bro-Jørgensen… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The one-dimensional carbon allotrope carbyne, a linear chain of sp-hybridized carbon
atoms, is predicted to exist in a polyynic and a cumulenic structure. While molecular forms of …

Decoding the mechanical conductance switching behaviors of dipyridyl molecular junctions

F Sun, L Liu, CF Zheng, YC Li, Y Yan, XX Fu, CK Wang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Dipyridyl molecular junctions often show intriguing conductance switching behaviors with
mechanical modulations, but the mechanisms are still not completely revealed. By applying …

Orbital Hall responses in disordered topological materials

LM Canonico, JH Garcia, S Roche - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We report an efficient numerical approach to compute the different components of the orbital
Hall responses in disordered topological materials from the Berry phase theory of …

Ab initio spin-flip conductance of hydrogenated graphene nanoribbons: Spin-orbit interaction and scattering with local impurity spins

J Wilhelm, M Walz, F Evers - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We calculate the spin-dependent zero-bias conductance G σ σ′ in armchair graphene
nanoribbons with hydrogen adsorbates employing a DFT-based ab initio transport formalism …