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Unified description of inelastic propensity rules for electron transport through nanoscale junctions
We present a method to analyze the results of first-principles based calculations of electronic currents including inelastic electron-phonon effects. This method allows us to determine the electronic and vibrational symmetries in play, and hence to obtain the so-called propensity rules for the studied systems.
We show that only a few scattering states-namely those belonging to the most transmitting eigenchannels-need to be considered for a complete description of the electron transport. We apply the method on first-principles calculations of four different systems and obtain the propensity rules in each case.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2008 |
Pages: | 226604 |
ISSN: | 10797114 and 00319007 |
Types: | Journal article and Preprint article |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.226604 |
ORCIDs: | Brandbyge, Mads |