Advances in the fabrication and characterization of nanoscale systems now allow for a better
understanding of one of the most basic issues in science and technology: the flow of heat at …

Transport of electrons in a single molecule junction is the simplest problem in the general
subject area of molecular electronics. In the past few years, this area has been extended to …

Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is
leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are …

While basic features of polarons were well recognized a long time ago and have been
described in a number of review papers and textbooks, interest in the role of electron …

Much current experimental research on transport in molecular junctions focuses on finite
voltages, where substantial polarization-induced nonlinearities may result in technologically …

Mechanical oscillators have been demonstrated with very high quality factors over a wide
range of frequencies. They also couple to a wide variety of fields and forces, making them …

At present, metal–molecular tunnel junctions are recognized as important active elements in
molecular electronics. This gives a strong motivation to explore physical mechanisms …

Heating and heat conduction in molecular junctions are considered within a general
nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. We obtain a unified description of heating in …

Electronic friction is a correction to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, whereby nuclei in
motion experience a drag in the presence of a manifold of electronic states. The notion of …

We present a universal expression for the electronic friction as felt by a set of classical
nuclear degrees of freedom (DOFs) coupled to a manifold of quantum electronic DOFs; no …