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We present a general treatment to study transport phenomena in systems described by tight-binding Hamiltonians coupled to reservoirs and with one or more time-periodic potentials. We apply this treatment to the study of transport phenomena…

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The study of coherence dynamics in open quantum systems, specifically addressing various physical realizations of quantum systems and environments, is a long-standing and central pillar of quantum science and technology. As such, a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Kevin Ben Attar , Nir Bar-Gill

Transport phenomena at the nanoscale are of interest due to the presence of both quantum and classical behavior. In this work, we demonstrate that quantum transport efficiency can be enhanced by a dynamical interplay of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 Patrick Rebentrost , Masoud Mohseni , Ivan Kassal , Seth Lloyd , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum transport in disordered systems poses intriguing fundamental questions about the interplay of disorder, interactions, and decoherence, with important implications for nanoscale energy transfer and quantum information transfer. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Roi Nevo , Brett Min , Maggie Lawrence , Dvira Segal , Nir Bar-Gill

Heating and heat conduction in molecular junctions are considered within a general NEGF formalism. We obtain a unified description of heating in current carrying molecular junctions as well as the electron and phonon contributions to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the framework of the nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

The simulation of quantum transport in nanodevices requires the solution of the Dyson and Keldysh equations, a task dominated by the inversion of massive, block-tridiagonal matrices. While the Recursive Green's Function (RGF) method has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Edoardo Di Napoli , Alessandro Pecchia , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo

The dynamics of strongly correlated fermions following an external excitation reveals extremely rich collective quantum effects. Examples are fermionic atoms in optical lattices, electrons in correlated materials, and dense quantum plasmas.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-26 Niclas Schluenzen , Jan-Philip Joost , Michael Bonitz

Understanding how decoherence influences heat and information flow is essential for realizing the promise of quantum technologies. Two widely used models for incorporating decoherence in quantum transport are the voltage probe (VP), which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Eren Erdogan , Justin P. Bergfield

We study the role of dephasing in transport through different structures. We show that interference effects invalidate Kirchhoff's circuit laws in quantum devices. We present circuits where the particle transport and the direction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Edin Kapetanović , César A. Rodríguez-Rosario , Thomas Frauenheim

We consider optical spectroscopy of molecular junctions from the quantum transport perspective when radiation field is quantized and optical response of the system is simulated as photon flux. Using exact expressions for photon and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Yi Gao , Michael Galperin

We discuss the general transport properties of superconducting quantum point contacts. We show how these properties can be obtained from a microscopic model using nonequilibrium Green function techniques. For the case of a one-channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati , J. C. Cuevas

We study transport properties of anisotropic Heisenberg model in a disordered magnetic field experiencing dephasing due to external degrees of freedom. In the absence of dephasing the model can display, depending on parameter values, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Marko Znidaric

We propose a novel approach to the problem of a transition from quantum to classical behavior in mesoscopic spin systems. This paper is intended to demonstrate that main cause of such transitions is quantum decoherence which appear as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Makhro

The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method is often used to predict transport in atomistically resolved nanodevices and yields an immense numerical load when inelastic scattering on phonons is included. To ease this load, this work…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Daniel A. Lemus , James Charles , Tillmann Kubis

We provide a pedagogical review of the main ideas and results in non-equilibrium conformal field theory and connected subjects. These concern the understanding of quantum transport and its statistics at and near critical points. Starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-20 Denis Bernard , Benjamin Doyon

Simulating charge and energy transfer in extended molecular networks requires an effective model to include the environment because it significantly affects the quantum dynamics. A prototypical effect known as Environment-Assisted Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Federico Gallina , Matteo Bruschi , Barbara Fresch

We develop a time-dependent nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) approach to the problem of spin pumping by precessing magnetization in one of the ferromagnetic layers within F/I/F magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) or F/I/N semi-MTJs in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 Farzad Mahfouzi , Jaroslav Fabian , Naoto Nagaosa , Branislav K. Nikolic

Due to random dopant fluctuations, the device-to-device variability is a serious challenge to emerging nanoelectronics. In this work we present theoretical formalisms and numerical simulations of quantum transport variability, based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 Yu Zhu , Lei Liu , Hong Guo