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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 13(110), 2013

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.136101

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Symmetry Dependence of Vibration-Assisted Tunneling

Journal article published in 2013 by Niko Pavliček ORCID, Ingmar Swart, Judith Niedenführ, Gerhard Meyer, Jascha Repp
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Abstract

We present spatially resolved vibronic spectroscopy of individual pentacene molecules in a double-barrier tunneling junction. It is observed that even for this effective single-level system the energy dissipation associated with electron attachment varies spatially by more than a factor of 2. This is in contrast to the usual treatment of electron-vibron coupling in the Franck-Condon picture. Our experiments unambiguously prove that the local symmetry of initial and final wave function determines the dissipation in electron transport.