Molecular dynamics trajectories obtained from simulations of mechanically-controlled break-junctions and associated zero-bias conductance.

This data set contains structural information and the associated zero-bias conductance of mechanically-controlled break-junction experiments. It contains:

• Six (multi) xyz files (trajectory_0X.xyz), which contain different trajectories produced by molecular dynamic simulations (using LAMMPS and reactive force fields) of a mechanically-controlled break-junction. These simulations start from a gold wire with attached molecules. One side of the wire is slowly pulled away, until the gold wire is broken apart and a molecular junction is formed. The outermost six layers of the goldwire are frozen in the simulation. The temperature of the simulation was set to 300K.
• Six files (transmission_0X.dat) with the calculated zero-bias conductance (G/G₀). Each entry corresponds to the zero-bias conductance of the corresponding structure from the xyz files. The zero-bias conductance was calculated using non-scc DFTB+, as, e.g., described here.

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