Electronic transport and vibrational modes in the smallest molecular bridge: H2 in Pt nanocontacts

Details Electronic transport and vibrational modes in the smallest molecular bridge: H2 in Pt nanocontacts Electronic transport and vibrational modes in the smallest molecular bridge: H2 in Pt nanocontacts

2003-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310098v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.041402

We present a state-of-the-art first-principles analysis of electronic transport in a Pt nanocontact in the presence of H2 which has been recently reported by Smit et al. in Nature 419, 906 (2002). Our results indicate that at the last stages of the breaking of the Pt nanocontact two basic forms of bridge involving H can appear. Our claim is, in contrast to Smit et al.'s, that the main conductance histogram peak at G approx 2e^2/h is not due to molecular H2, but to a complex Pt2H2 where the H2 molecule dissociates. A first-principles vibrational analysis that compares favorably with the experimental one also supports our claim .

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