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Polaron Effects in Quench Dynamics

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Quench Dynamics in Interacting and Superconducting Nanojunctions

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The charge and current fluctuations provide an essential information to understand the transport phenomenon through the system. On the other hand, the transient response of the physical observables contain information about the characteristic system time scales, which can be important to fabricate devices operating at high frequency or for designing single electron sources and single electron detectors. In this context, it is of fundamental importance to develop new theoretical methods to characterize the charge fluctuations in the time domain. The concept of Waiting Time Distributions (WTD), originally used in the field of quantum optics and stochastic processes, has been recently extended to characterize the electron quantum transport. Although the first works were focused on the incoherent regime, a more recent extension to the coherent regime has been done for non-interacting devices. Another approach to the problem is provided by the NGFs. In this chapter we analyze the WTD and the transient charge and current fluctuations of a molecular junction coupled to metallic electrodes in the coherent regime.

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  1. Division of Solid State Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Dr. Rubén Seoane Souto

  2. Center for Quantum Devices and Station Q Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Dr. Rubén Seoane Souto

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Seoane Souto, R. (2020). Polaron Effects in Quench Dynamics. In: Quench Dynamics in Interacting and Superconducting Nanojunctions. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36595-0_4

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