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The time evolution in quantum many-body systems after external excitations is attracting high interest in many fields. The theoretical modeling of these processes is challenging, and the only rigorous quantum-dynamics approach that can…

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Designing nanoscale electronic devices such as the currently manufactured nanoribbon field-effect transistors (NRFETs) requires advanced modeling tools capturing all relevant quantum mechanical effects. State-of-the-art approaches combine…

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Magnetic skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like configurations in spin textures, are of wide conceptual and practical appeal for quantum information technologies, notably in relation to the making of so-called race-track memory…

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We investigate the electric and thermoelectric transport coefficients of nanocomposites using the Non-Equilibrium Greens Function (NEGF) method, which can accurately capture the details of geometry and disorder in these structures. We…

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Zero bias conductance per spin of nanotube double junction (NTDJ) is investigated theoretically using the tight binding model, unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation and non-equilibrium Green's functions. NTDJ consists of two metallic…

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Based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) coupled with density function theory (DFT), namely, NEGF-DFT quantum transport theory, we propose an efficient formalism to calculate the transient current of molecular devices under a…

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The nonequilibrium Green's function method is used to study the ballistic transport in metallic carbon nanotubes when a current is injected from the electrodes with finite bias voltages. We reveal, both analytically and numerically, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoto Tsuji , Shigehiro Takajo , Hideo Aoki

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We derive analytical expressions of the density of states (DOS) of a 2DEG with the Rashba SOI in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. K. Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Utilizing a full microscopic Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) approach, we study the equilibrium charge and spin currents in ballistic $SFSFS$ Josephson systems, where $F$ is a uniformly magnetized ferromagnet and $S$ is a conventional $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-20 Klaus Halterman , Mohammad Alidoust

In this thesis we showed that Non-equilibrium Green's Function Perturbation Theory (NEGF) is really the overarching perturbative transport theory. This is shown in great detail by using NEGF as a starting point and developing in 3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Meng Lee Leek

We introduce a multiscale framework which combines time-dependent nonequilibrium Green function (TD-NEGF) algorithms, scaling linearly in the number of time steps and describing quantum-mechanically conduction electrons in the presence of…

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The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

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The continuous scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has led to device geometries where charged carriers are increasingly confined to ever smaller channel cross sections. This development is associated with…

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We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

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The spin current in the Josephson junction as a weak link (interface) between misorientated triplet superconductors is investigated theoretically for the models of the order parameter in $UPt_{3}$. Green functions of the system are obtained…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-02 G. Rashedi , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

The simulation of quantum transport in nanodevices requires the solution of the Dyson and Keldysh equations, a task dominated by the inversion of massive, block-tridiagonal matrices. While the Recursive Green's Function (RGF) method has…

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Spin Noise Spectroscopy (SNS) is an experimental approach to obtain correlators of mesoscopic spin fluctuations in time by purely optical means. We explore the information that this technique can provide when it is applied to a weakly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Fuxiang Li , Yuriy V. Pershin , Valeriy A. Slipko , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Using non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF), we calculate the current through an interacting region connected to non-interacting leads. The problem is reformulated in such a way that a Landauer-like term appears in the current as well as…

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