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Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design, Department of Physics Technical University of Denmark, DK - 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
The calculation of the electronic conductance of nanoscale junctions from first principles is a long-standing problem in the field of charge transport. Here we demonstrate excellent agreement with experiments for the transport properties of the gold/alkanediamine benchmark system when electron-electron interactions are described by the many-body GW approximation. The conductance follows an exponential length dependence: G(n) = G(c) exp(-βn). The main difference from standard density functional theory (DFT) calculations is a significant reduction of the contact conductance, G(c), due to an improved alignment of the molecular energy levels with the metal Fermi energy. The molecular orbitals involved in the tunneling process comprise states delocalized over the carbon backbone and states localized on the amine end groups. We find that dynamic screening effects renormalize the two types of states in qualitatively different ways when the molecule is inserted in the junction. Consequently, the GW transport results cannot be mimicked by DFT calculations employing a simple scissors operator.
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