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Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

The $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet is studied on the kagom\'e lattice by using a Green's function method based on an appropriate decoupling of the equations of motion. Thermodynamic properties as well as spin-spin correlation functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. H. Bernhard , B. Canals , C. Lacroix

We present a detailed treatment of the nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal transport due to atomic vibrations in nanostructures. Some of the key equations, such as self-energy and conductance with nonlinear effect, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Jian-Sheng Wang , Nan Zeng , Jian Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

We study entanglement of electron spins in many-body systems based on the Green's function approach. As an application we obtain the two-particle density matrix of a non-interacting electron gas and identify its two-spin density matrix as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sangchul Oh , Jaewan Kim

We extend the formalism of the thermodynamic two-time Green's functions to nonextensive quantum statistical mechanics. Working in the optimal Lagrangian multipliers representation, the $q$-spectral properties and the methods for a direct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-07 A. Cavallo , F. Cosenza , L. De Cesare

The Green's function method has applications in several fields in Physics, from classical differential equations to quantum many-body problems. In the quantum context, Green's functions are correlation functions, from which it is possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Mariana M. Odashima , Beatriz G. Prado , E. Vernek

The electron transport properties of a four-terminal molecular device are computed within the framework of density functional theory and non-equilibrium Keldysh theory. The additional two terminals lead to new properties, including a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

We derive a closed equation of motion for the one particle density matrix of a quantum system coupled to multiple baths using the Redfield master equation combined with a mean-field approximation. The steady-state solution may be found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zekun Zhuang , Jaime Merino , J. B. Marston

We study the statistics of thermal energy transfer in the nonequilibrium (two-bath) spin-boson model. This quantum many-body impurity system serves as a canonical model for quantum energy transport. Our method makes use of the Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

The effect of electron-electron scattering on the equilibrium properties of few-electron quantum dots is investigated by means of nonequilibrium Green's functions theory. The ground and equilibrium state is self-consistently computed from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 K. Balzer , M. Bonitz , R. van Leeuwen , N. E. Dahlen , A. Stan

We present and review an efficient method to calculate the retarded Green's function in multi-terminal nanostructures; which is needed in order to calculate the conductance through the system and the local particle densities within it. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Thorgilsson , G. Viktorsson , S. I. Erlingsson

We report numerical simulation result of a recently proposed \{P. Bruno, Phys. Rev. Lett {\bf 79}, 4593, (1997)\} approach to perform magnetic scanning tunneling microscopy with a two terminal non-magnetic tip. It is based upon the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Pareek , Patrick Bruno

We present a new charge self-consistent scheme combining Density Functional and Dynamical Mean Field Theory, which uses Green's function of multiple scattering-type. In this implementation the many-body effects are incorporated into the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Östlin , L. Vitos , L. Chioncel

The dynamics of magnetization in the presence of spin-transfer torque was studied. We derived the equation for the motion of magnetization in the presence of a spin current by using the local equilibrium assumption in non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Kazuhiko Seki , Hiroshi Imamura

The possibility of quantum oscillations of the tunnel conductance and magnetoresistance induced by spin-wave excitations in a ferromagnet-ferromagnet-ferromagnet double barrier tunnel junction, when the magnetizations of the two side…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-23 Xi Chen , Qing-Rong Zheng , Gang Su

The interconversion between charge and spin degrees of freedom is of both fundamental and technological relevance in spintronics. While a non-equilibrium spin density and a charge current are related by the well known Rashba-Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Marc Vila , Joel E. Moore

Current-driven spin torques in metallic spin-valves composed of antiferromagnets are theoretically studied using the non-equilibrium Green's function method implemented on a tight-binding model. We focus our attention on G-type and L-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hamed Ben Mohamed Saidaoui , Xavier Waintal , Aurelien Manchon

Schwinger Keldysh field theory is a widely used paradigm to study non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems starting from a thermal state. We extend this formalism to describe non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum systems starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-13 Ahana Chakraborty , Pranay Gorantla , Rajdeep Sensarma

We compute the current and the noise power matrix in a quantum dot connected to two metallic reservoirs by using the Keldysh field theory approach, a non-equilibrium quantum field theory language in the functional integral formalism. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Marco Uguccioni , Luca Dell'Anna

Recent work proposed a variant on Ramsey interferometry for coupled spin-$1/2$ systems that directly measures the retarded spin-spin Green's function. We expand on that work by investigating nonequilibrium retarded spin-spin Green's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Bryce T. Yoshimura , J. K. Freericks