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Although extensive experimental and theoretical works have been conducted to understand the ballistic and diffusive phonon transport in nanomaterials recently, direct observation of temperature and thermal nonequilibrium of different phonon…

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We examine the electronic heat transport phenomena in nanoscale junctions composed of organic molecules coupled to two metallic reservoirs of different temperatures. The electronic heat flux and its dynamical noise properties are calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Arthur Luniewski , Rita Aghjayan , Kamil Walczak

The success of a ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) depends on the asymmetry of electron tunneling as given by the tunneling electroresistance (TER) effect. This characteristic is mainly assessed considering three transport mechanisms:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Titus Sandu , Catalin Tibeica , Rodica Plugaru , Oana Nedelcu , Neculai Plugaru

Using the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, we propose a microscopic theory for near-field radiative heat transfer between metal plates. Tight-binding models for the electrons are coupled to the electromagnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng

We employ Non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) to describe the real-time dynamics of an adsorbate-surface model system exposed to ultrafast laser pulses. For a finite number of electronic orbitals, the system is solved exactly and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Boström , M. Hopjan , A. Kartsev , C. Verdozzi , C. -O. Almbladh

Steady-state thermal transport in nanostructures with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean-free-path is examined. Both the case of contacts at different temperatures with no internal heat generation and contacts at the same temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jan Kaiser , Tianli Feng , Jesse Maassen , Xufeng Wang , Xiulin Ruan , Mark Lundstrom

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li

The influence of electron--phonon interactions on the dynamics of a quantum dot coupled to a photonic cavity mode is investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Within a polaron frame, the self-consistent-Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Gaston Hornecker , Alexia Auffèves , Thomas Grange

We have developed a theoretical formalism to investigate the contribution of fluctuation of Coulomb interaction to the shot noise based on Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function method. We have applied our theory to study the behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Duo Li , Lei Zhang , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

We study thermoelectric transport through a coherent molecular conductor connected to two electron and two phonon baths using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We focus on the mutual drag between electron and phonon transport as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

Following the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism we study the thermal transport in a composite chain subject to a time-dependent perturbation. The system is formed by two finite linear asymmetric harmonic chains subject to an on-site…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 N. Beraha , A. Soba , M. F. Carusela

The understanding and modeling of the heat transport across nanometer and sub-nanometer gaps where the distinction between thermal radiation and conduction become blurred remains an open question. In this work, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yangyu Guo , Christophe Adessi , Manuel Cobian , Samy Merabia

The phonon thermal conductance of sub-nanometric vacuum gaps between two in-plane nanoribbons of two-dimensional materials (graphene and silicene) is analyzed using the atomistic Green's function method and by employing the Tersoff and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Md Jahid Hasan Sagor , Sheila Edalatpour

We introduce diagrammatic technique for Hubbard nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The formulation is an extension of equilibrium considerations for strongly correlated lattice models to description of current carrying molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Feng Chen , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

Phonon transmission across interfaces of dissimilar materials has been studied intensively in the recent years by using atomistic simulation tools owing to its importance in determining the effective thermal conductivity of nanostructured…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-25 Xiaokun Gu , Xiaobo Li , Ronggui Yang

We consider the electron transport properties through fully interacting nanoscale junctions beyond the linear-response regime. We calculate the current flowing through an interacting region connected to two interacting leads, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

We present a procedure to determine transmission eigenchannels for coherent phonon transport in nanoscale devices using the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions. We illustrate our procedure by analyzing a one-dimensional chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. C. Klöckner , J. C. Cuevas , F. Pauly

The relaxation of a spatially sinusoidal temperature perturbation in a dielectric crystal at a temperature comparable to or higher than the Debye temperature is investigated theoretically. We assume that most phonons contributing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 A. A. Maznev , Jeremy A. Johnson , Keith A. Nelson

We present a general nonequilibrium Green's function formalism for modeling heat transfer in systems characterized by linear response that establishes the formal algebraic relationships between phonon and radiative conduction, and reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Prashanth S. Venkataram , Riccardo Messina , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Alejandro W. Rodriguez