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A dynamical method for inelastic transport simulations in nanostructures is compared with a steady-state method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. A simplified form of the dynamical method produces, in the steady state in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Eunan J. McEniry , Thomas Frederiksen , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas , Andrew P. Horsfield

A time-dependent inelastic electron transport theory for strong electron-phonon interaction is established via the equations of motion method combined with the small polaron transformation. In this work, the dissipation via electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yu Zhang , ChiYung Yam , GuanHua Chen

Understanding the electronic and phononic transport properties of junctions consisting of a scattering region such as a nanoscale matters or molecules connected to two or more electrodes is the central basis for future nano and molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Hatef Sadeghi

We study the statistical properties of charge and energy transport in electron conducting junctions with electron-phonon interactions, specifically, the thermoelectric efficiency and its fluctuations. The system comprises donor and acceptor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

We discuss the quantum transport of electrons through a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator at zero temperature. By using the Green's function technique we calculate the transport properties of electrons through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M Tahir , A MacKinnon

The anomalous behavior of electron induced phonon transport is investigated using an Anderson-Holstein based dissipative quantum dot setup under two relevant bias situations: (a) a voltage bias in the absence of an electronic temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Bitan De , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We review a recent theoretical development based on non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to study heat transport in nanomechanical devices modeled by phononic systems of coupled quantum oscillators driven by ac forces and connected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Liliana Arrachea , Bruno Rizzo

The topic of this review is the effects of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) on the transport properties of molecular nano-conductors. A nano-conductor connects to two electron leads and two phonon leads, possibly at different temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Jing-Tao Lü , Hangbo Zhou , Jin-Wu Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang

Based on exactly mapping of a many-body electron-phonon interaction problem onto a one-body problem, we apply the well-established nonequilibrium Green function technique to solve the time-dependent phonon-assisted tunneling at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

We present a combined theoretical approach to study the nonequilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes and exhibiting strong electron-phonon interactions. We use the Keldysh Green function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Monreal , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

We theoretically study the electrical transport properties of a single level quantum dot connected to two normal conducting leads, which is coupled to the lattice vibrations. We determine the current through the quantum dot in two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Levente Máthé , Ioan Grosu

A thorough understanding of the microscopic picture of heat conduction in solids is critical to a broad range of applications, from thermal management of microelectronics to more efficient thermoelectric materials. The transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-04 Yujie Quan , Shengying Yue , Bolin Liao

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We study transport through a double quantum dot system in which each quantum dot is coupled to a phonon mode. Such a system can be realized, e.g., using a suspended carbon nanotube. We find that the interplay between strong electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Stefan Walter , Björn Trauzettel , Thomas L. Schmidt

Non-diffusive, fluid-like transport of charge and heat has been observed in several materials, raising the question of whether they can emerge simultaneously and how they are related to bi-component electron-phonon fluids. Here we introduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Jennifer Coulter , Bogdan Rajkov , Michele Simoncelli

We investigate the effects of alternating voltage on nonequilibrium quantum systems with localised phonon modes. Nonequilibrium Green's functions are utilised, with electron-phonon coupling being considered with the $GD$ approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Thomas D. Honeychurch , Daniel S. Kosov

Phonon-phonon interaction is systematically studied by nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulism in momentum space at finite temperatures. Within the quasi-particle approximation, phonon frequency shift and lifetime are obtained from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yong Xu , Jian-Sheng Wang , Wenhui Duan , Bing-Lin Gu , Baowen Li

The influence of electron--phonon interactions on the dynamics of a quantum dot coupled to a photonic cavity mode is investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Within a polaron frame, the self-consistent-Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Gaston Hornecker , Alexia Auffèves , Thomas Grange

We present a Green's function based treatment of the effects of electron-phonon coupling on transport through a molecular quantum dot in the quantum limit. Thereby we combine an incomplete variational Lang-Firsov approach with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Koch , J. Loos , A. Alvermann , A. R. Bishop , H. Fehske

We investigate the time-resolved quantum transport properties of phonons in arbitrary harmonic systems connected to phonon baths at different temperatures. We obtain a closed analytic expression of the time-dependent one-particle reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Riku Tuovinen , Niko Säkkinen , Daniel Karlsson , Gianluca Stefanucci , Robert van Leeuwen