Kartsev, Alexey; Verdozzi, Claudio; Stefanucci, Gianluca - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 87 (2014) 1, pp. 1-12
The force exerted by the electrons on the nuclei of a current-carrying molecular junction can be manipulated to engineer nanoscale mechanical systems. In the adiabatic regime a peculiarity of these forces is negative friction, responsible for Van der Pol oscillations of the nuclear coordinates....