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A theoretical study of molecular conduction. III. A nonequilibrium-Green's-function-based Hartree-Fock approach

J. Chem. Phys. 124, 114708 (2006); doi:10.1063/1.2177652

Published 20 March 2006

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Tomomi Shimazaki
Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

Yongqiang Xue
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois 60208 and College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany, 255 Fuller Road, Albany, New York 12203

Mark A. Ratner
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois 60208

Koichi Yamashita
Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Many recent experimental and theoretical studies have paid attention to the conductivity of single molecule transport junctions, both because it is fundamentally important and because of its significance in the development of molecular-based electronics. In this paper, we discuss a nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF)-based Hartree-Fock (HF) approach; the NEGF method can appropriately accommodate charge distributions in molecules connected to electrodes. In addition, we show that a NEGF-based density matrix can reduce to an ordinary HF density matrix for an isolated molecule if the molecule does not interact with electrodes. This feature of the NEGF-based density matrix also means that NEGF-based Mulliken charges can be reduced to ordinary Mulliken charges in those cases. Therefore, the NEGF-based HF approach can directly compare molecules that are connected to electrodes with isolated ones, and is useful in investigating complicated features of molecular conduction. We also calculated the transmission probability and conduction for benzenedithiol under finite electrode biases. The coupling between the electrodes and molecule causes electron transfer from the molecule to the electrodes, and the applied bias modifies this electron transfer. In addition, we found that the molecule responds capacitively to the applied bias, by shifting the molecular orbital energies. ©2006 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 6 September 2005; accepted 24 January 2006; published 20 March 2006
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 72.20.Fr
    Low-field transport and mobility; piezoresistance (semiconductors/insulators)
  • 71.15.Ap
    Basis sets (LCAO, plane-wave, APW, etc.) and related methodology (scattering methods, ASA, linearized methods, etc.) (condensed matter electronic structure)
  • 82.45.-h
    Electrochemistry and electrophoresis
  • YEAR: 2006

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