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The nonlinear conductance of semiconductor heterostructures and single molecule devices exhibiting Kondo physics has recently attracted attention. We address the observed sample dependence of the measured steady state transport coefficients…

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We present a quantum transport theory for hybrid superconducting systems based on our exact master equation approach. The total transient transport current is decomposed into components that describe coherent transports through different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Hon-Lam Lai , Wei-Min Zhang

Based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF), we develop a quantum nonlinear theory to study time-dependent ac transport properties in the low frequency and nonlinear bias voltage regimes. By expanding NEGF in terms of time to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Fuming Xu , Jian Chen , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wan

Diffusive transport properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a tilted spatially periodic potential and strongly interacting with a thermostat are explored. Apart from the average stationary velocity, we foremost investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hänggi

We approach the problem of constructing a quantum analogue of the immensely fruitful classical transport cost theory of Monge from a new angle. Going back to the original motivations, by which the transport is a bilinear function of a mass…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Matt Hoogsteder-Riera , John Calsamiglia , Andreas Winter

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

The study explores perpendicular transport through macroscopically inhomogeneous three-dimensional disordered conductors using mesoscopic methods (real-space Green function technique in a two-probe measuring geometry). The nanoscale samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic

Transport properties of strongly correlated quantum systems are of central interest in condensed matter, ultracold atoms and in dense plasmas. There, the proper treatment of strong correlations poses a great challenge to theory. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-06 M. Bonitz , N. Schluenzen , S. Hermanns

We analyze the problem of directed quantum transport induced by external exponentially correlated telegraphic noise. In addition to quantum nature of the heat bath, nonlinearity of the periodic system potential brings in quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Debashis Barik , Deb Shankar Ray

The time evolution of optically excited carriers in semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots is analyzed for their interaction with LO-phonons. Both the full two-time Green's function formalism and the one-time approximation provided by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Gartner , Jan Seebeck , Frank Jahnke

We study steady state transport through a double quantum dot array using the equation-of-motion approach to the nonequilibrium Green functions formalism. This popular technique relies on uncontrolled approximations to obtain a closure for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-26 Tal J. Levy , Eran Rabani

Starting with the Green's functions found for normal diffusion, we construct exact time-dependent Green's functions for subdiffusive equation (with fractional time derivatives), with the boundary conditions involving a linear combination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

Quantum dots are versatile systems for exploring quantum transport, electron correlations, and many-body phenomena such as the Kondo effect. While equilibrium properties are well understood through methods like the numerical renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Gustavo Diniz , Silvio Quintino , Vivian V. França

Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wacker , A. -P. Jauho , S. Rott , A. Markus , P. Binder , G. H. D"ohler

Quantum cascade lasers can be modeled within a hierarchy of different approaches: Standard rate equations for the electron densities in the levels, semiclassical Boltzmann equation for the microscopic distribution functions, and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Wacker , S. -C. Lee , M. F. Pereira

In this paper, the Green function theory of quantum many-particle systems recently presented is reworked within the framework of nonextensive statistical mechanics with a new normalized $q$-expectation values. This reformulation introduces…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 E. K. Lenzi , R. S. Mendes , A. K. Rajagopal

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of many-body quantum systems with conserved charges and kinetic constraints. Using random unitary circuits, we compute ensemble-averaged spectral form factors and linear-response…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-06 Hansveer Singh , Brayden Ware , Romain Vasseur , Aaron J. Friedman

Non-equilibrium quantum transport is crucial to technological advances ranging from nanoelectronics to thermal management. In essence, it deals with the coherent transfer of energy and (quasi-)particles through quantum channels between…

We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

We present a non-perturbative Floquet-based non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to study electron transport in a quantum system driven simultaneously by multiple independent terms (multi-mode). We first derive the two-mode…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-20 Vahid Mosallanejad , Wenjie Dou