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We investigate the effects of alternating voltage on nonequilibrium quantum systems with localised phonon modes. Nonequilibrium Green's functions are utilised, with electron-phonon coupling being considered with the $GD$ approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Thomas D. Honeychurch , Daniel S. Kosov

Nonequilibrium charge transport through a trimer molecular transistor composed of three quantum dots arranged in a triangular geometry, which is placed on a substrate, has been studied in the presence of electron electron and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Hemant Kumar Sharma

In order to justify applicability of the standard approach of perturbation theory for the description of transport phenomena in wide-band polar semiconductors with strong electron-phonon interactions, we have compared dependences of energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Komirenko , K. W. Kim , M. A. Stroscio , M. Dutta

Quantum thermal transport in armchair and zig-zag graphene nanoribbons are investigated in the presence of single atomic vacancies and subject to different boundary conditions. We start with a full comparison of the phonon polarizations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 P. Scuracchio , S. Costamagna , F. M. Peeters , A. Dobry

Non-equilibrium Green's function theory for non-adiabatic effects in quantum transport [Kershaw and Kosov, J.Chem. Phys. 2017, 147, 224109 and J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 044121] is extended to the case of interacting electrons. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

Electron transport in periodic quantum dot arrays in the presence of interactions with phonons was investigated using the formalism of nonequilibrium Green's functions. The self-consistent Born approximation was used to model the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nenad Vukmirović , Zoran Ikonić , Dragan Indjin , Paul Harrison

Using harmonic and anharmonic force constants extracted from density-functional calculations within a supercell, we have developed a relatively simple but general method to compute thermodynamic and thermal properties of any crystal. First,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Keivan Esfarjani , Gang Chen , Harold T. Stokes

The mean-free path (MFP) accumulation function for the effective thermal conductivity, introduced by Dames and Chen is a compact, universal and highly useful summary of the effect of ballistic thermal transport on the effective thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-24 Ashok T. Ramu , John E. Bowers

Notwithstanding its relevance to many applications in sensing, security, and communications, electrical generation of narrow-band mid-infrared light remains highly challenging. Unlike in the ultraviolet or visible spectral regions few…

Applying the path integral formalism we study the equilibrium thermodynamics of the phonon field both in the Holstein and in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models. The anharmonic cumulant series, dependent on the peculiar source currents of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Zoli

We apply the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method to microscopically evaluate fission cross sections for the neutron induced $^{235}$U$(n,f)$ reaction. While the model space was restricted only to seniority zero configurations in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 K. Uzawa , K. Hagino

In recent past extensive device simulation work has already been done on TFETs. Various ways have been suggested to model TFETs. In our paper we look at one such particular way to model these devices. The Non equilibrium green's formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-27 Rahul Mishra , Bahniman Ghosh

We study the electronic transport in a molecular junction in which each site is coupled to a local phonon bath using the non-equilibrium Green's function method. We observe the length period of the oscillatory conductance in odd-numbered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-12 Ya-Lin Lo , Shih-Jye Sun , Ying-Jer Kao

We present a comprehensive study of the spectral and transport properties in the Anderson--Holstein model both in and out of equilibrium using the functional renormalization group (FRG). We show how the previously established machinery of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-19 M. A. Laakso , D. M. Kennes , S. G. Jakobs , V. Meden

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between irregularly shaped dielectric particles made of SiO2 and morphology characterized by Gaussian random spheres is studied. Particles are modeled using the discrete system Green's function…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Lindsay P. Walter , Eric J. Tervo , Mathieu Francoeur

Within a phonon-assisted resonance level model we develop a self-consistent procedure for calculating electron transport currents in molecular junctions with intermediate to strong electron-phonon interaction. The scheme takes into account…

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

The concept of transmission eigenchannels is described in a tight-binding nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework. A simple procedure for calculating the eigenchannels is derived using only the properties of the device subspace and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Magnus Paulsson , Mads Brandbyge

Phonon heat transport in mesoscopic systems is investigated using methods analogous to the Landauer description of electrical conductance. A "universal heat conductance" expression that depends on the properties of the conducting pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Angelescu , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

Thermal conductivity, a fundamental parameter characterizing thermal transport in solids, is typically determined by electron and phonon transport. Although other transport properties including electrical conductivity and thermoelectric…

Thermoelectric properties of a two-level molecule attached to the metallic electrodes are analyzed using the equation of motion technique within the Green function formalism. Results show that the electrical conductance is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani