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We investigate quantum transport in aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers fabricated via solution spinning, focusing on the roles of structural dimensionality and quantum interference effects. The fibers exhibit metallic behavior at high…

The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach offers a practical framework for simulating various phenomena in mesoscopic systems. As the dimension of electronic devices shrinks to just a few nanometers, the need for new…

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Electron transport and quantum conductance through an armchair graphene and its oxidized graphene- containing form were investigated by the density functional theory (DFT) method and the implementation of the non-equilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Badie Ghavami , Alireza Rastkar-Ebrahimzadeh

In this thesis we showed that Non-equilibrium Green's Function Perturbation Theory (NEGF) is really the overarching perturbative transport theory. This is shown in great detail by using NEGF as a starting point and developing in 3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Meng Lee Leek

The quantum conductance properties of pyrene molecule and its silicone-doped variant between semi-infinite aluminum nano-chains have been investigated by using the density functional theory (DFT) combined with the non-equilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Alireza Rastkar Ebrahimzade , Badie Ghavami , Jaber Jahanbin Sardroodi , Sadegh Afshari , Mina Yaghoobi

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

We investigate the electronic transport behavior of Fano-Anderson (FA) systems, consisting of a one-dimensional finite backbone chain and an attached side-group of varying length. The tight-binding model within the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

In this paper we present a general formulation for electronic transport that combines strong correlation effects with broadening and quantum coherence, and illustrate it with a simple example ("spin blockade") that clearly demonstrates all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Supriyo Datta

An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Taisuke Ozaki , Kengo Nishio , Hiori Kino

The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a powerful tool to study the nonequilibrium dynamics of correlated lattice systems, but its applicability to realistic system sizes and long timescales is limited by unfavorable memory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Maksymilian Środa , Ken Inayoshi , Michael Schüler , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Philipp Werner

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

A key insight from recent studies is that noise, such as dephasing, can improve the efficiency of quantum transport by suppressing coherent single-particle interference effects. However, it is not yet clear whether dephasing can enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 J. J. Mendoza-Arenas , T. Grujic , D. Jaksch , S. R. Clark

Since proposed in the 70s, the Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method has been recognized as a standard approach to quantum transport simulations. Although it achieves superiority in simulation accuracy, the tremendous computational…

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Motivated by the recent experimental observation [D. A. Abanin et al., Science 323, 328 (2011)] of nonlocality in magnetotransport near the Dirac point in six-terminal graphene Hall bars, for a wide range of temperatures and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Chien-Liang Chen , Ching-Ray Chang , Branislav K. Nikolic

We theoretically study the electronic transport in the monolayer of dithiolated phenylene vinylene oligomeres coupled to the (111) surfaces of gold electrodes. We use non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGF) and density functional theory(DFT)…

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The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method combined with ab initio calculations has been widely used to study charge transport in molecular junctions. However, the significant computational demands of high-resolution calculations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xuan Ji , Qiang Qi , Yueqi Chen , Chen Zhou , Xi Yu

The Wave Function Matching (WFM) technique has recently been developed for the calculation of electronic transport in quantum two-probe systems. In terms of efficiency it is comparable with the widely used Green's function approach. The WFM…

Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Lokanath Patra , Mayur Pratap Singh , Satish Kumar

Density functional theory (DFT) combined with non-equilibrium Greens functions (NEGF) is a powerful approach to model quantum transport under external bias potentials, at reasonable computational cost. In this work we present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Christian S. Ahart , Sergey Chulkov , Clotilde S. Cucinotta

While the Landauer viewpoint constitutes a modern basis to understand nanoscale electronic transport and to realize first-principles implementations of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, seeking an alternative picture…

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