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This introduction to Green's functions is based on their role as kernels of differential equations. The procedures to construct solutions to a differential equation with an external source or with an inhomogeneity term are put together to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 Ursula Schröter

A local-orbital based ab initio approach to obtain the Green function for large heterogeneous systems is developed. First a Green function formalism is introduced based on exact diagonalization. Then the self energy is constructed from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Albrecht , A. Schnurpfeil , G. Cuniberti

We describe linear and nonlinear transport across a single impurity Anderson model quantum dot with intermediate coupling to the leads, i.e., with tunnel coupling of the order of the thermal energy k_B T. The coupling is large enough that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Johannes Kern , Milena Grifoni

We present a comprehensive pedagogical discussion of a family of models describing the propagation of a single particle in a multicomponent non-Markovian Gaussian random field. We report some exact results for single-particle Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 D. V. Efremov , M. N. Kiselev

Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Noora Tuomisto , Riikka Vaananen , Martti J. Puska , Risto M. Nieminen

We have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong

We calculate the rate of energy flow between two macroscopic bodies, each in thermodynamic equilibrium at a different temperature, and joined by a weak mechanical link. The macroscopic solids are assumed to be electrically insulating, so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kelly R. Patton , Michael R. Geller

We developed a set of equations to calculate the electronic Green's functions in a T-shaped multi-quantum dot system using the equation of motion method. We model the system using a generalized Anderson Hamiltonian which accounts for {\em…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. Tifrea , G. Pal , M. Crisan

A Green-function formalism for the Kondo lattice model is presented, which is designed to be combined with the dynamical mean-field theory. With use of Wick's theorem only for conduction electrons, dynamical quantities are represented in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-06 Junya Otsuki , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yoshio Kuramoto

Quantum entanglement phase transitions have provided new insights to quantum many-body dynamics. Both disorders and measurements are found to induce similar entanglement transitions. Here, we provide a theoretical framework that unifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Qinghong Yang , Yi Zuo , Dong E. Liu

Based on the framework of Kubo formulism, we develop the minimally entangled typical thermal state algorithm to study the temperature and time dependence of current-current correlation function in one-dimensional spinless fermion model,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-21 Yao Yao , Yiqiang Zhan , Xiaoyuan Hou , Chang-Qin Wu

We study the transport properties of generic out-of-equilibrium quantum systems connected to fermionic reservoirs. We develop a new method, based on an expansion of the current in terms of the inverse system size and out of equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Tony Jin , João S. Ferreira , Michele Filippone , Thierry Giamarchi

The electrical conductance, thermal conductance, thermal power and figure of merit (ZT) of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into an insulator matrix connected with metallic electrodes are theoretically investigated in the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David M. -T. Kuo , Yia-chung Chang

To explore whether the density-functional theory non-equilibrium Green's function formalism (DFT-NEGF) provides a rigorous framework for quantum transport, we carried out time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-01 ChiYung Yam , Xiao Zheng , GuanHua Chen , Yong Wang , Thomas Frauenheim , Thomas A. Niehaus

The nonlinear conductance of semiconductor heterostructures and single molecule devices exhibiting Kondo physics has recently attracted attention. We address the observed sample dependence of the measured steady state transport coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Enrique Muñoz , C. J. Bolech , Stefan Kirchner

In both research and textbook literature one often finds two ``different'' Kubo formulas for the zero-temperature conductance of a non-interacting Fermi system. They contain a trace of the product of velocity operators and single-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic

Meson correlation functions are studied in the model with four-fermion interaction Lagrangian. We demonstrate that despite the singular character of system mean energy and corresponding quark condensate found out the meson observables are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-02 S. V. Molodtsov , M. K. Volkov , G. M. Zinovjev

Stable organic radicals integrated into molecular junctions represent a practical realization of the single-orbital Anderson impurity model. Motivated by recent experiments for perchlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM) molecules contacted to gold…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-02 W. H. Appelt , A. Droghetti , L. Chioncel , M. M. Radonjic , E. Munoz , S. Kirchner , D. Vollhardt , I. Rungger

This review deals with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method applied to the problems of energy transport due to atomic vibrations (phonons), primarily for small junction systems. We present a pedagogical introduction to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Huanan Li , Juzar Thingna

We consider a strongly interacting quantum dot connected to two leads held at quite different temperatures. Our aim is to study the behavior of the Kondo effect in the presence of large thermal biases. We use three different approaches,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Miguel A. Sierra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez