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Correlation effects in the transport properties of a single quantum level coupled to electron reservoirs are discussed theoretically using a non-equilibrium Green functions approach. Our method is based on the introduction of a second-order…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , F. Flores

We propose a framework to construct the ground-state energy and density matrix of an N-electron system by solving selfconsistently a set of single-particle equations. The method can be viewed as a non-trivial extension of the Kohn-Sham…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Van Neck , S. Verdonck , G. Bonny , P. W. Ayers , M. Waroquier

We modeled the electron and hole states in Si/SiO2 quantum wells within a basis of standing waves using the 30-band k.p theory. The hard-wall confinement potential is assumed, and the influence of the peculiar band structure of bulk silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nemanja A. Cukaric , Milan Z. Tadic , Bart Partoens , F. M. Peeters

We report an exhaustive study of the performance of different variants of Green function methods for the spherium model in which two electrons are confined to the surface of a sphere and interact via a genuine long-range Coulomb operator.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello , J. A. Berger

We consider the nonequilibrium quantum vibrations of a molecule clamped between two macroscopic leads in a current-carrying state at finite voltages. Our approach is based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Ryndyk , M. Hartung , G. Cuniberti

The Hamiltonian $H={1\over2} p^2+{1\over2}m^2x^2+gx^2(ix)^\delta$ with $\delta,g\geq0$ is non-Hermitian, but the energy levels are real and positive as a consequence of ${\cal PT}$ symmetry. The quantum mechanical theory described by $H$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Carl M. Bender , Stefan Boettcher , Peter N. Meisinger , Qinghai Wang

Polymer self-consistent field theory techniques are used to derive quantum density functional theory without the use of the theorems of density functional theory. Instead, a free energy is obtained from a partition function that is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Russell B. Thompson

To obtain the basis for combining various many-body techniques to QED in a consistent manner, we investigate the theory of quantum electrodynamical self-consistent fields. The reserch interest was born mainly of the electronic structure…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadafumi Ohsaku

We study the I-V characteristic of mesoscopic systems or Quantum dot attached of a pair of superconducting leads. Interaction effects in the quantum dot are considered through the charging energy of the quantum dot; the treatment of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 David Verrilli , F. P. Marin , Rafael Rangel

We study the equilibrium and nonequilibrium electronic transport properties of multiprobe topological systems using a combination of the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach and nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques. We obtain general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio Lewenkopf

In this work, a mesoscopic model based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism for a tight-binding-like effective Hamiltonian is used to investigate a selectively contacted quantum dot array designed for operation as a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Aude Berbezier , Urs Aeberhard

We present experimental magnetotunneling results and atomistic pseudopotential calculations of quasiparticle electron and hole wave functions of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots. The combination of a predictive theory along with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-08 G. Bester , D. Reuter , L. He , A. Zunger , P. Kailuweit , A. D. Wieck , U. Zeitler , J. C. Maan , O. Wibbelhoff , A. Lorke

Photocarrier transport and extraction in GaAsSb/GaAsN type-II quantum well superlattices are investigated by means of inelastic quantum transport calculations based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. Evaluation of the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Urs Aeberhard , Alicia Gonzalo , Jose María Ulloa

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two kinds of electron-vibron interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We study theoretically the effect of an electric field on the electron states and far-infrared optical properties in narrow-gap lead salt quantum wells. The electron states are described by a two-band Hamiltonian. An application of a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos , F. T. Vasko

The excitonic absorption spectrum for a disordered quantum well in presence of exciton-acoustic phonon interaction is treated beyond the Markov approximation. Realistic disorder exciton states are taken from a microscopic simulation, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Mannarini , R. Zimmermann

An analysis shows that the ground state of the inhomogeneous system of interacting electrons in the static external field, which satisfies the thermodynamic limit, can be consistently described only using the Green function theory based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. B. Bobrov

Non-equilibrium transport properties and energy conversion performance of a molecular photo-voltaic cell are analyzed using the Lindblad master equation within the open quantum systems approach. The method allows us to calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 Shigeru Ajisaka , Bojan Zunkovic , Yonatan Dubi

We employ magnetocapacitance and far-infrared spectroscopy techniques to study the spectrum of the double-layer electron system in a parabolic quantum well with a narrow tunnel barrier in the centre. For gate-bias-controlled asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin , E. V. Deviatov , F. Hastreiter , M. Hartung , A. Wixforth , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard

he properties of excitons formed in spherical quantum dots are studied using the $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ method within the Hartree approximation. The spherical quantum dots considered have a central core and several concentric layers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Mariano Garagiola , Omar Osenda