Molecular orbital concept on spin-flip transport in molecular junctions

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 130, Issue 4-6, 2011, Pages 775-788

  Tada, Tomofumi ^a   Yamamoto, Takahiro ^b   Watanabe, Satoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Green's function; Molecular junction; Molecular orbital; Spin dependent electron transport; Spin flip; Wave packet

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855213162     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-011-1028-3     Document Type: Article

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