Current collapse in tunneling transport through benzene

Details Current collapse in tunneling transport through benzene Current collapse in tunneling transport through benzene

2002-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207483v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.076805

We investigate the electrical transport through a system of benzene coupled to metal electrodes by electron tunneling. Using electronic structure calculations, a semi--quantitative model for the pi-electrons of the benzene is derived that includes general two-body interactions. After exact diagonalization of the benzene model the transport is computed using perturbation theory for weak electrode-benzene coupling (golden rule approximation). We include the effect of an applied electric field on the molecular states, as well as radiative relaxation. We predict a current collapse and strong negative differential conductance due to a ``blocking'' state when the electrode is coupled to the para-position of benzene. In contrast, for coupling to the meta-position, a series of steps in the I-V curve is found.

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