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Superoperator Many-body Theory of Molecular Currents: Non-equilibrium Green Functions in Real Time

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The electric conductance of a molecular junction is calculated by recasting the Keldysh formalism in Liouville space. Dyson equations for nonequilibrium many body Green's functions (NEGF) are derived directly in real (physical) time. The various NEGFs appear naturally in the theory as time ordered products of superoperators, while the Keldysh forward/backward time loop is avoided.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0408111,
  title  = {Superoperator Many-body Theory of Molecular Currents: Non-equilibrium Green Functions in Real Time},
  author = {U. Harbola and S. Mukamel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0408111},
  year   = {2007}
}

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16 pages, no figure