Charge and heat transport through a single-molecule tunnel coupled to external normal electrodes have been studied. The molecule with sufficiently strong interaction between electrons and vibrational internal degrees of freedom can be characterized by the negative effective charging energy $U<0$. Such a molecule has been considered and modeled by the Anderson Hamiltonian. The electrical conductance, thermopower, and thermal conductance of the system have been calculated as a function of gate voltage in the weak coupling limit within the rate equation approach. In the linear regime the analytic formulas for the transport coefficients in the pair-dominated tunneling are presented. The effects found in the nonlinear transport include inter alia the rectification of the heat current. The sense of forward (reverse) direction, however, depends on the tuning parameter and can be controlled by the gate voltage. We also discuss the quantization of the thermal conductance and the departures from the Wiedemann-Franz law.

• Received 21 July 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.115423