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All-electronic Nanosecond-resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Facilitating the Investigation of Single Dopant Charge Dynamics
Published on: January 19, 2018
Single and double valence configuration interactions for recovering the exponential decay law while tunneling through
Mathilde Portais1, Mohamed Hliwa, Christian Joachim
1CEMES-CNRS, 29 rue J. Marvig 31055 Toulouse Cedex4, France.
Abstract:
The exponential decay of the electronic transmission through a molecular wire with its length is calculated using a configuration interaction elastic scattering quantum chemistry (CI-ESQC) theory [1, 2]. In the HOMO-LUMO gap and in a one-electron approximation, this decay is exponential since the scattering matrix comes from a product of spatial propagators along the wire. In a valence SD-CI (single and double-configurations interaction) description, such a product does not exist. An effective one was numerically obtained from the CI-ESQC scattering matrix. Fluctuations over the effective CI-exponential decay come from the truncation of the full CI basis set and also from many-body exchange-correlation effects along the molecular wire.
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