Applications, molecular electronics information processing

In this chapter, we will discuss the recent results regarding the development of molecular switches and logic gates toward information processing at the molecular level based on electroactive molecules and supramolecules. Also, we will illustrate the progress of application of electron donor-acceptor compounds in high-density information storage. 

The first volume contained nine state-of-the-art chapters on fundamental aspects, on formalism, and on a variety of applications. The various discussions employ both stationary and time-dependent frameworks, with Hermitian and non-Hermitian Hamiltonian constructions. A variety of formal and computational results address themes from quantum and statistical mechanics to the detailed analysis of time evolution of material or photon wave packets, from the difficult problem of combining advanced many-electron methods with properties of field-free and field-induced resonances to the dynamics of molecular processes and coherence effects in strong electromagnetic fields and strong laser pulses, from portrayals of novel phase space approaches of quantum reactive scattering to aspects of recent developments related to quantum information processing. 

The concept of molecular electronics describes an interdisciplinary research area which deals with the questions of how molecular systems and molecular materials might find applications in electronics, photonics, and optoelectronics. We can perhaps define molecular electronics as follows it includes those processes and phenomena in which organic molecules, individually or in larger numbers, play an active role in the processing, transferring and storage of information [1-5]. 

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