Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2016,7, 439–464, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.39
. Effects of the electron–vibration coupling on the charge and heat transport of soft nanoscopic systems are theoretically investigated in the presence of time-dependentperturbations, such as a forcing antenna or pumping terms between the leads and the nanosystem. A well-established approach valid for non
-equilibrium adiabatic regimes is generalized to the case where external time-dependentperturbations are present. Then, a number of relevant applications of the method are reviewed for systems composed by a quantum dot (or molecule) described by a single electronic level coupled to a vibrational mode.
Results
: Before introducing time-dependentperturbations, the range of validity of the adiabatic approach is discussed showing that a very good agreement with the results of an exact quantum calculation is obtained in the limit of low level occupation. Then, we show that the interplay between the low frequency
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Figure 1:
Scheme of the device studied in this work. The left lead (LL) and the right lead (RL) are kept at d...