Theory of quantum conductance of atomic and molecular bridges

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1079-1092

  Tsukada, Masaru ^a   Tagami, Katsunori ^a,b   Hirose, Kenji ^c   Kobayashi, Nobuhiko ^d  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atom wire; Current loop; Density matrix; Electron phonon; Molecular bridge; Persistent current; Phase coherence; Quantum transport; Recursion transfer matrix; Tight binding

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644448399     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 00319015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.1079     Document Type: Review

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