Many-Body Coherent Transport in Single-Molecule Junctions

ABSTRACT

Single-molecule junctions serve as an ideal platform for understanding nonequilibrium statistical and thermodynamic processes at the extreme small scale. Even at the single-molecule level, the transport properties of a molecule are influenced by multiple degrees of freedom, either intrinsic to the molecule or arising from the surrounding environment, such as molecular vibrations, local optical modes. Investigating these interactions and the associated energy conversion processes in various forms can deepen our understanding of fundamental processes in small-scale thermodynamics and nonequilibrium statistics, as well as the impact of quantum effects on these processes. This talk will focus on the many-body coherent transport phenomena and their theoretical understanding in the presence of simultaneous electron-vibration and electron-electron interactions. 

BIOGRAPHY

Jing-Tao Lü is a professor at the School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. After obtaining his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he conducted research at the National University of Singapore, the Technical University of Denmark, and the University of Copenhagen. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013 and primarily focuses on theoretical and computational studies of charge and energy transport and statistical properties in low-dimensional molecular systems.