Symmetry Dependence of Vibration-Assisted Tunneling

N. Pavlíček, I. Swart, J. Niedenführ, G. Meyer, J. Repp

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Abstract

We present spatially resolved vibronic spectroscopy of individual pentacene molecules in a double-barrier tunneling junction. It is observed that even for this effective single-level system the energy dissipation associated with electron attachment varies spatially by more than a factor of 2. This is in contrast to the usual treatment of electron-vibron coupling in the Franck-Condon picture. Our experiments unambiguously prove that the local symmetry of initial and final wave function determines the dissipation in electron transport.
Original languageEnglish
Article number136101
Pages (from-to)1-5
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume110
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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