On Zero-Temperature Current through Atomic Chain Subjected to a Uniformly Varying Field: Green's Function Formalism
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https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe69.8.611Keywords:
electron transport, Green’s functions, transmission coefficientAbstract
On the basis of the tight-binding formalism and Green’s function technique, we obtain all matrix elements of Green’s functions for a biased chain with linear variations of the electron on-site energy. Their dependence on system parameters is analyzed in the context of through-molecule electron transport.
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