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We present a new method to derive transport equations for quantum many-particle systems. This method uses an equation-of-motion technique and is applicable to systems with bosons and fermions, arbitrary interactions and time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Fricke

Atomic-sized lead (Pb) contacts are deposited and dissolved in an electrochemical environment, and their transport properties are measured. Due to the electrochemical fabrication process, we obtain mechanically unstrained contacts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 F. -Q. Xie , F. Hüser , F. Pauly , Ch. Obermair , G. Schön , Th. Schimmel

This work explores the use of joint density-functional theory, a new form of density-functional theory for the ab initio description of electronic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with a liquid environment, to describe electrochemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , T. A. Arias

We consider a system of particles interacting via a purely repulsive, soft-core potential recently introduced to model effective pair interactions between dendrimers, which is expected to lead to the formation of crystals with multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-11 Davide Pini

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamil Walczak

We present for static density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory calculations an all-electron method which employs high-order hierarchical finite element bases. Our mesh generation scheme, in which structured…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-08-06 Lauri Lehtovaara , Ville Havu , Martti Puska

Density-based clustering methodology has been widely considered in the statistical literature for classifying Euclidean observations. However, this approach has not been contemplated for directional data yet. In this work, directional…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Paula Saavedra-Nieves , Martín Fernández-Pérez

Accurate determination of carrier transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) materials is critical for designing high-performance nano-electronic devices and quantum information platforms. While first-principles calculations effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Sathwik Bharadwaj , Ashwin Ramasubramaniam , L. R. Ram-Mohan

The electronic charge density plays a central role in determining the behavior of matter at the atomic scale, but its computational evaluation requires demanding electronic-structure calculations. We introduce an atom-centered,…

We describe microscopic theory for the quantum transport through finite interacting systems connected to noninteracting leads. It can be applied to small systems such as quantum dots, quantum wires, atomic chain, molecule, and so forth. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Oguri

We introduce a model for active transport on inhomogeneous networks embedded in a diffusive environment and investigate the formation of particle clusters. In the presence of a hard-core interaction, cluster sizes exhibit an algebraically…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Philip Greulich , Ludger Santen

In this paper, we study numerical discretizations to solve density functional models in the "strictly correlated electrons" (SCE) framework. Unlike previous studies our work is not restricted to radially symmetric densities. In the SCE…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Huajie Chen , Gero Friesecke , Christian B. Mendl

We extend our ensemble density functional approach to quantum Hall systems to include non-collinear spins to study charge-spin textures in inhomogeneous quantum Hall systems. We have studied the edge reconstruction in quantum dots at unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Heinonen , J. M. Kinaret , M. D. Johnson

In this contribution we present calculations performed for interacting electron systems within a non-perturbative formulation of the cluster theory. Extrapolation of the model to describe the time dependence of the interacting systems is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tomaselli , T. Kuehl , D. Ursescu , S. Fritzsche

Transport in molecular electronic devices is different from that in semiconductor mesoscopic devices in two important aspects: (1) the effect of the electronic structure and (2) the effect of the interface to the external contact. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yongqiang Xue , Supriyo Datta , Mark A. Ratner

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

Density functional theory is the standard theory for computing the electronic structure of materials, which is based on a functional that maps the electron density to the energy. However, a rigorous form of the functional is not known and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

An electrodynamical coupled cluster (CC) methodology starting from a covariant formalism and an equal time approximation, and finally based on the Dirac-Fock picture of the electron and positron fields and Coulomb gauge, is given here. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Sambhu N. Datta

Aberration-corrected scanning electron microscopy (AC-STEM) can provide valuable information on the atomic structure of nanoclusters, an essential input for gaining an understanding of their physical and chemical properties. A systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-11 Kusse S. Bersha , Alejandro Peña-Torres , Hannes Jónsson

Faithful representations of atomic environments and general models for regression can be harnessed to learn electron densities that are close to the ground state. One of the applications of data-derived electron densities is to orbital-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Andrew T. Fowler , Chris J. Pickard , James A. Elliott