Role of the virtual orbitals and HOMO-LUMO gap in mean-field approximations to the conductance of molecular junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Cehovin, A ^a   Mera, H ^a   Jensen, J H ^b   Stokbro, K ^c   Pedersen, T B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 44349100397     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195432     Document Type: Article

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