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The coherent transfer of excitations between different locations of a quantum many-body system is of primary importance in many research areas, from transport properties in spintronics and atomtronics to quantum state transfer in quantum…

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The late-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems is organized in distinct dynamical universality classes, characterized by their conservation laws and thus by their emergent hydrodynamic transport. Here, we study transport in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Philip Zechmann , Alvise Bastianello , Michael Knap

In this essay, we first sketch the development of ideas on the extraordinary dynamics of integrable classical nonlinear and quantum many body Hamiltonians. In particular, we comment on the state of mathematical techniques available for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Zotos

We develop a quantum embedding method that enables accurate and efficient treatment of interactions between molecules and an environment, while explicitly including many-body correlations. The molecule is composed of classical nuclei and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Matej Ditte , Matteo Barborini , Leonardo Medrano Sandonas , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We explore electron transport properties for the model of benzene-1, 4-dithiolate (BDT) molecule and for some other geometric models of benzene molecule attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes using the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Santanu K. Maiti

Understanding the interplay of interactions and disorder in quantum transport poses long-standing scientific challenges, with many-body quantum transport phenomena in high-dimensional disordered systems remaining largely unexplored…

We present the first in a series of microscopic studies of electrical transport through individual molecules with metallic contacts. We view the molecules as ``heterostructures'' composed of chemically well-defined atomic groups, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yongqiang Xue , Mark A. Ratner

We investigate multi-terminal quantum transport through single monocyclic aromatic annulene molecules, and their derivatives, using the nonequilibrium Green function approach in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. A new device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Cardamone , C. A. Stafford , S. Mazumdar

Bohmian mechanics is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that describes the motion of quantum particles with an ensemble of deterministic trajectories. Several attempts have been made to utilize Bohmian trajectories as a computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Tarek A. Elsayed , Klaus Mølmer , Lars Bojer Madsen

Quantum systems with exact analytic solutions are rare - challenging the realisation of excitation-free transport methods for many-body systems. Husimi's 1953 treatment of linearly driven harmonic oscillators constitutes an important…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-12 B. J. Mommers , A. Pritchard , T. A. Bell , R. N. Kohn , S. E. Olson , M. Baker , M. W. J. Bromley

In the field of molecular electronics, particularly in quantum transport studies, the orientation of molecules plays a crucial role. This orientation, with respect to the electrodes, can be defined through the cavity of ring-shaped…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-17 A. Martinez-Garcia , T. de Ara , L. Pastor-Amat , C. Untiedt , E. B. Lombardi , W. Dednam , C. Sabater

We use the Newns-Anderson Hamiltonian to describe many-body electronic processes that occur when hyperthermal alkali atoms scatter off metallic surfaces. Following Brako and Newns, we expand the electronic many-body wavefunction in the…

The simulation of quantum transport in a realistic, many-particle system is a nontrivial problem with no quantitatively satisfactory solution. While real-time propagation has the potential to overcome the shortcomings of conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Justin E. Elenewski , Yanxiang Zhao , Hanning Chen

Electronic transport characteristics through a single phenalenyl molecule sandwiched between two metallic electrodes are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. A parametric approach, based on the tight-binding model, is used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

Recent advances in the spectroscopy of biomolecules have highlighted the possibility of quantum coherence playing an active role in biological energy transport. The revelation that quantum coherence can survive in the hot and wet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Ross Dorner , John Goold , Vlatko Vedral

Electron transport is theoretically investigated in a molecular device made of anthracene molecule attached to the electrodes by thiol end groups in two different configurations (para and meta, respectively). Molecular system is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

We present a new approach to carry out non-adiabatic molecular dynamics to study the carrier mobility in an organic monolayer. This approach allows the calculation of a 4802 atom system for 825 fs in about three hours using 51,744 computer…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-13 Junfeng Ren , Nenad Vukmirovic , Lin-Wang Wang

Currents through quantum systems may probe non-analyticities in quantum-critical many-body ground states. For a large class of dissipative quantum critical systems we show that it is possible to obtain the reduced system dynamics in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-19 C. W. Wächtler , G. Schaller

Harnessing the interaction between light and matter at the quantum level has been a central theme in atomic physics and quantum optics, with applications from quantum computation to quantum metrology. Combining complex interactions with…

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