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Coherently controlled molecular junctions

Source: J. Chem. Phys. 136, 044107 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3676047

Published 30 January 2012

KEYWORDS and PACS
Keywords
PACS
  • 85.65.+h
    Molecular electronic devices
  • 84.30.Jc
    Power electronics; power supply circuits
  • YEAR: 2011
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1553-9644 (online)
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Uri Peskin1 and Michael Galperin2
1Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Within a generic model, we discuss the possibility of coherent control of charge fluxes in unbiased molecular junctions. The control is induced by resonances between the Rabi frequency due to a pumping laser field and internal characteristic frequencies of pre-designed molecular donor-bridge-acceptor complexes. Two models are considered: a coherently controlled molecular charge pump and a molecular switch. The study generalizes previous consideration of light induced current [M. Galperin and A. Nitzan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 206802 (2005)] and of a molecular electron pump [R. Volkovich and U. Peskin, Phys. Rev. B 83, 033403 (2011)] and accounts for the coherently driven charge transport in an unbiased molecular junction with symmetric coupling to leads. Numerical examples demonstrate the feasibility of the control mechanism for realistic junctions parameters. ©2012 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 25 October 2011; accepted 20 December 2011; published 30 January 2012
Digital Object Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3676047

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