Session M2: Carbon Nanostructures II
11:10 AM–12:10 PM, Saturday, October 22, 2011
UA Student Union Room: Ventana
Chair: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.4CF.M2.2
Abstract: M2.00002 : Effect of interactions and degeneracy on transmission through a single molecule
11:22 AM–11:34 AM
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Authors:
Michael Stefferson
(University of Arizona)
Jarred Hudson
(University of Arizona)
Charles Stafford
(University of Arizona)
Electron transmission through a single-molecule junction in the Coulomb blockade regime is analyzed in the isolated resonance approximation for molecules with degenerate HOMO and/or LUMO orbitals. Electron-electron interactions are included in a capacitive charging model derived from pi-electron effective field theory. For the case of a buckyball junction with Pt electrodes, we find that the number of transmission channels is limited by the five-fold degenerate HOMO resonance.
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