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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 42: Nano- and Optomechanics
TT 42.5: Talk
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 11:45–12:00, H7
Modelling of coupled molecular rotors — Huang-Hsiang Lin1,2, Alexander Croy1, •Rafael Gutiérrez1, and Gianaurelio Cuniberti1,3 — 1Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, TU Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany — 2Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany — 3Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
The possibility of creating molecular gears able to transfer motion has opened novel routes to implement true molecule-based mechanical analogs of computational machine. Here, we use a classical description of rigid molecules to investigate the dynamics of coupled gears for different arrangement and in presence of disorder. To be specific, we consider two gears and many gears problem; Then we demonstrate the solution analytically and numerically. In particular, we focus on the question of transfer of angular momentum acting on assembly of gears, which is relevant in light of recent experiments.