Preston, Riley J., and Kosov, Daniel S. (2023) A physically realizable molecular motor driven by the Landauer blowtorch effect. Journal of Chemical Physics, 158 (22). 224106.

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Abstract

We propose a model for a molecular motor in a molecular electronic junction driven by a natural manifestation of Landauer’s blowtorch effect. The effect emerges via the interplay of electronic friction and diffusion coefficients, each calculated quantum mechanically using nonequilibrium Green’s functions, within a semiclassical Langevin description of the rotational dynamics. The motor functionality is analyzed through numerical simulations where the rotations exhibit a directional preference according to the intrinsic geometry of the molecular configuration. The proposed mechanism for motor function is expected to be ubiquitous for a range of molecular geometries beyond the one examined here.

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