Applying the extended molecule approach to correlated electron transport: Important insight from model calculations

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bâldea, Ioan ^a,c   Köppel, Horst ^a   Maul, Robert ^b   Wenzel, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; AB INITIO METHOD; CORRELATED ELECTRONS; ELECTRIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRON CORRELATION EFFECT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FULL CONFIGURATION INTERACTION; LANDAUER; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MOLECULE-ELECTRODE COUPLING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATION; RESONANT-LEVEL MODELS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

ELECTRODES; ELECTRON CORRELATIONS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 77954609782     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3455056     Document Type: Article

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