Slow vibrations in transport through molecules.

Heikkilä, Tero T; Belzig, Wolfgang · Nano Lett · 2005

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We show how one can measure the signal from slow jumps of a single molecule between metastable positions using a setup where the molecule is fixed to one lead and one of the coupling strengths is controlled externally. Such a measurement yields information about slow processes deforming the molecule in times much longer than the characteristic time scales for the electron transport process.