One-way rotation of a molecule-rotor driven by a shot noise. Echeverria, J., Monturet, S., & Joachim, C. Nanoscale, 6(5):2793–2799, February, 2014. Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
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The shot noise of a tunneling current passing through a molecule-motor can sustain a one-way rotation when populating the molecular excited states by tunneling inelastic excitations. We demonstrate that a ratchet-like ground state rotation potential energy curve is not necessary for the rotation to occur. A relative shift in energy difference between the maxima of this ground state and the minima of the excited states is the necessary condition to get to a unidirectional rotation. The rotor speed of rotation and its rotation direction are both controlled by this shift, indicating the necessity of a careful design of both the ground and excited states of the next generation of molecule-motors to be able to generate a motive power at the nanoscale.
@article{echeverria_one-way_2014,
	title = {One-way rotation of a molecule-rotor driven by a shot noise},
	volume = {6},
	issn = {2040-3372},
	url = {https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/nr/c3nr05814j},
	doi = {10.1039/C3NR05814J},
	abstract = {The shot noise of a tunneling current passing through a molecule-motor can sustain a one-way rotation when populating the molecular excited states by tunneling inelastic excitations. We demonstrate that a ratchet-like ground state rotation potential energy curve is not necessary for the rotation to occur. A relative shift in energy difference between the maxima of this ground state and the minima of the excited states is the necessary condition to get to a unidirectional rotation. The rotor speed of rotation and its rotation direction are both controlled by this shift, indicating the necessity of a careful design of both the ground and excited states of the next generation of molecule-motors to be able to generate a motive power at the nanoscale.},
	language = {en},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2022-12-13},
	journal = {Nanoscale},
	author = {Echeverria, Jorge and Monturet, Serge and Joachim, Christian},
	month = feb,
	year = {2014},
	note = {Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry},
	pages = {2793--2799},
}

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