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We consider electron transport in a Kitaev chain connected at its two ends to normal metallic leads kept at different temperatures and chemical potentials. Transport in this set-up is usually studied using two frameworks -- the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-19 Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar

The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach offers a practical framework for simulating various phenomena in mesoscopic systems. As the dimension of electronic devices shrinks to just a few nanometers, the need for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Wenjie Dou

The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method is often used to predict transport in atomistically resolved nanodevices and yields an immense numerical load when inelastic scattering on phonons is included. To ease this load, this work…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Daniel A. Lemus , James Charles , Tillmann Kubis

A new approximate computational framework is proposed for computing the non-equilibrium charge density in the context of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method for quantum mechanical transport problems. The framework consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Quan Chen , Jun Li , Chiyung Yam , Yu Zhang , Ngai Wong , Guanhua Chen

A new theoretical framework for the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) scheme is presented to account for the discrete nature of impurities doped in semiconductor nanostructures. The short-range part of impurity potential is included as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nobuyuki Sano

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 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

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method combined with ab initio calculations has been widely used to study charge transport in molecular junctions. However, the significant computational demands of high-resolution calculations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xuan Ji , Qiang Qi , Yueqi Chen , Chen Zhou , Xi Yu

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

Ab initio modeling of molecular electronics is nowadays routinely performed by combining the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) techniques. This method has its roots in the current formula given by Meir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. P. Jauho

Phonon-phonon interaction is systematically studied by nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulism in momentum space at finite temperatures. Within the quasi-particle approximation, phonon frequency shift and lifetime are obtained from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yong Xu , Jian-Sheng Wang , Wenhui Duan , Bing-Lin Gu , Baowen Li

We have modeled transport properties of nanostructures using the Green's function method within the framework of the density-functional theory. The scheme is computationally demanding so that numerical methods have to be chosen carefully. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti J. Puska , Mikko H. Hakala , Adam S. Foster , Risto M. Nieminen

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zili Tang , Xiaoxin Xie , Guanwen Yao , Ligong Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Xing Zhang , Liu Fei

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

In this colloquia review we discuss methods for thermal transport calculations for nanojunctions connected to two semi-infinite leads served as heat-baths. Our emphases are on fundamental quantum theory and atomistic models. We begin with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jian Wang , J. T. Lu

We investigate the aspects of the electron transport in the zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. The latter is an esoteric tool in mesoscopic physics and using this tool the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 Pankaj Bhalla , Surender Pratap

Inelastic effects in electron transport through nano-sized devices are addressed with a method based on nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) and perturbation theory to infinite order in the electron-vibration coupling. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge , Nicolas Lorente , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Density functional theory (DFT) combined with non-equilibrium Greens functions (NEGF) is a powerful approach to model quantum transport under external bias potentials, at reasonable computational cost. In this work we present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Christian S. Ahart , Sergey Chulkov , Clotilde S. Cucinotta

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

Radiative heat transfer (RHT) at the nanoscale can vastly exceed the far-field blackbody limit due to the tunneling of evanescent waves, a phenomenon traditionally described by fluctuational electrodynamics (FE). While FE has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yahan Liu , Tao Zhu