Modeling inelastic phonon scattering in atomic- and molecular-wire junctions
- 28 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 72 (20), 201101
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.72.201101
Abstract
Computationally inexpensive approximations describing electron-phonon scattering in molecular-scale conductors are derived from the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. The accuracy is demonstrated with a first-principles calculation on an atomic gold wire. Quantitative agreement between the full nonequilibrium Green’s function calculation and the newly derived expressions is obtained while simplifying the computational burden by several orders of magnitude. In addition, analytical models provide intuitive understanding of the conductance including nonequilibrium heating and provide a convenient way of parameterizing the physics. This is exemplified by fitting the expressions to the experimentally observed conductances through both an atomic gold wire and a hydrogen molecule.Keywords
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