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Deep Learning-Based Quantum Transport Simulations in Two-Dimensional Materials

Materials Science 2025-12-22 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both fundamental and technological importance. While density functional theory (DFT) combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism provides reliable insights, its high computational cost limits applications to large-scale or high-throughput studies. Here we present DeePTB-NEGF, a framework that combines a deep learning-based tight-binding Hamiltonians derived learned directly from first-principles calculations (DeePTB) with efficient quantum transport simulations implemented in the DPNEGF package. To validate the method, we apply it to three prototypical 2D materials: graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and MoS2_2. The resulting band structures and transmission spectra show excellent agreement with conventional DFT-NEGF results, while achieving orders-of-magnitude improvement in efficiency. These results highlight the capability of DeePTB-NEGF to enable accurate and efficient quantum transport simulations, thereby opening avenues for large-scale exploration and device design in 2D materials.

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@article{arxiv.2512.11291,
  title  = {Deep Learning-Based Quantum Transport Simulations in Two-Dimensional Materials},
  author = {Jijie Zou and Zhanghao Zhouyin and Qiangqiang Gu and Shishir Kumar Pandey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.11291},
  year   = {2025}
}
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