Abstract
In this paper, we consider the problem of inelastic electron transport in molecular systemsin which both electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom are considered on the quantumlevel. The electronic transport properties of the corresponding molecular nanojunctions areobtained by means of a non-perturbative Landauer-like multi-channel inelasticscattering technique. The connections between this approach and other Green’sfunction techniques that are useful in particular cases are studied in detail. Thevalidity of the wide-band approximation, the effects of the lead self-energy and thedynamical polaron shift are also studied for a wide range of parameters. As a practicalapplication of the method, we consider the effects of the temperature on theconductance properties of molecular breakjunctions in relation to recent experiments.
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