Charge and heat transport in soft nanosystems in the presence of time-dependent perturbations

• Alberto Nocera,
• Carmine Antonio Perroni,
• Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia and
• Vittorio Cataudella

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 439–464, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.39

• the electronic response, but it also induces nonlinear regimes where the interplay between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom plays a major role. Keywords: electronic charge quantum pumping; electronic transport theory; nanoelectromechanical systems; thermoelectric properties; time

Current-induced forces in mesoscopic systems: A scattering-matrix approach

• Niels Bode,
• Silvia Viola Kusminskiy,
• Reinhold Egger and
• Felix von Oppen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 144–162, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.15

• mechanical vibrations and cause limit-cycle dynamics. Keywords: current-induced forces; electronic transport theory; nanoelectromechanical systems; scattering matrix; S-matrix; Introduction Scattering theory has proved to be a highly successful method for treating coherent transport in mesoscopic systems