title: Molecule-based photonically switched half and full adder.
abstract: A single molecule logic gate using electronically excited states and ionization/fragmentation can take advantage of the differences in cross-sections for one and two photon absorption. Fault tolerant optically pumped half adder and full adder are discussed as applications. A full adder requires two separate additions, and the logic concatenation that is required to implement this is physically achieved by an intramolecular transfer along the side chain of 2-phenylethyl-N,N-dimethylamine (PENNA). Solutions of the kinetic equations for the temporal evolution of the concentration of different states in the presence of time-varying laser fields are used to illustrate the high contrast ratios that are potentially possible for such devices.
authors.affiliation: The Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. fremacle@ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Remacle
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weinkauf
authors.forename: Raphael D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Levine