Eur. Phys. J. B (2012) 85: 291
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-30276-x

Regular Article

Controlling fast electron transfer at the nano-scale by solitonic excitations along crystallographic axes

¹ Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense, Paseo Juan XXIII, 1, 28040 Madrid, Spain
² Dept. of Physics, Saratov State University, Astrakhanskaya 83, 410012 Saratov, Russia
³ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
⁴ Fundacion Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Villanueva de la Canada, 28691 Madrid, Spain

^a e-mail: wernerebeling@web.de

Received: 31 March 2012
Received in final form: 8 May 2012
Published online: 29 August 2012

Abstract

We present computational evidence of the possibility of fast, supersonic or subsonic, nearly loss-free transport of electrons bound to lattice solitons along crystallographic axes in two-dimensional anharmonic crystal lattices.