Electronic friction in interacting systems

Feng Chen, Kuniyuki Miwa, Michael Galperin

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Abstract

We consider the effects of strong light-matter interaction on electronic friction in molecular junctions within the generic model of a single molecule nanocavity junction. Results of the Hubbard nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) simulations are compared with mean-field NEGF and generalized Head-Gordon and Tully (HGT) approaches. Mean-field NEGF is shown to fail qualitatively at strong intrasystem interactions, while accuracy of the generalized HGT results is restricted to situations of well separated intramolecular excitations when bath induced coherences are negligible. Numerical results show effects of bias and cavity mode pumping on electronic friction. We demonstrate nonmonotonic behavior of the friction on the bias and intensity of the pumping field and indicate possibility of engineering friction control in single molecule junctions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number174101
JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
Volume150
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 May 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationCHE-1565939
U.S. Department of Energy

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