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Describing the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the system is strongly coupled to its environment, or when memory effects cannot be neglected. Here, we address such regimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Matteo Carrega , Loris Maria Cangemi , Giulio De Filippis , Vittorio Cataudella , Giuliano Benenti , Maura Sassetti

We study nonequilibrium transport in various open quantum systems whose systems and leads/baths are made of topological superconductors (TSs), semiconductors, and metals. Using quantum Langevin equations and Green's function method, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya , Dibyendu Roy

Charge and heat transport in nano-structures is dominated by non-equilibrium effects which strongly influence their behaviour. These effects are studied in a setup consisting of three external leads, one of which is considered as a heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Barbara Szukiewicz , Ulrich Eckern , Karol I. Wysokinski

In this paper, spin-dependent transport through a spin diode composed of a quantum dot coupled to a normal metal and a ferromagnetic lead is studied. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are analyzed using the equations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

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…

We study the quantized charge pumping of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) with edge-corner correspondences based on the combination of the rotation of in-plane magnetic field and the quantum spin Hall effect. A picture of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Bing-Lan Wu , Ai-Min Guo , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

The performance characteristics of a heat rectifier and a heat pump are studied in a non Markovian framework. The device is constructed from a molecule connected to a hot and cold reservoir. The heat baths are modelled using the stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Gil Katz , Ronnie Kosloff

Time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's functions are used to study electron transport properties in a device consisting of two linear chain leads and a time-dependent interleads coupling that is switched on non-adiabatically. We derive a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Eduardo C. Cuansing , Gengchiau Liang

We generalize time-evolving matrix product operators method to nonequilibrium quantum transport problems. The nonequilibrium current is obtained via numerical differentiation of the generating functional which is represented as a tensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Ruofan Chen

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 consider a small interacting sample coupled to several non-interacting leads. Initially, the system is at thermal equilibrium. At some instant $t_0$ the system is set into the so called partition-free transport scenario by turning on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 H. D. Cornean , V. Moldoveanu , C. -A. Pillet

We study the statistics of heat transferred in a given time interval $t_M$, through a finite harmonic chain, called the center $(C)$, which is connected with two heat baths, the left $(L)$ and the right $(R)$, that are maintained at two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-31 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Baowen Li , Jian-Sheng Wang

We study the heat transport along an edge state of a two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime, in contact to two reservoirs at different temperatures. We consider two exactly solvable models for the edge state coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 H. Aita , L. Arrachea , C. Naón , E. Fradkin

We consider transport properties of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry in presence of a time-dependent external field. In the proposed setup an external gate is placed above a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 F. Ronetti , M. Carrega , D. Ferraro , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin , M. Sassetti

We study the dynamics of two capacitively coupled quantum dots, each coupled to a lead. A Floquet Green's function approach described the system's dynamics, with the electron-electron interactions handled with the fluctuation-exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Thomas D. Honeychurch , Daniel S. Kosov

We numerically investigate the thermoelectric properties of a triangle quantum dot connected to metallic electrodes using the non-equilibrium Green's function method in the Anderson model. Exploiting the equation of motion method in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Ahmad Ahmadi Fouladi , Javad Vahedi

Effects of collective modes on thermoelectric properties of a charge density system is studied. We derive the temperature dependence of thermoelectric power and thermal conductivity by applying the linear response theory to Fr\"ohlich…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Yoshimoto , Susumu Kurihara

We consider heat transport across a harmonic chain of charged particles, with transverse degrees of freedom, in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. For an open chain connected to heat baths at the two ends we obtain the nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-22 Junaid Bhat , Gaëtan Cane , Cédric Bernardin , Abhishek Dhar

We employ the functional renormalization group to study the effects of phonon-assisted tunneling on the nonequilibrium steady-state transport through a single level molecular quantum dot coupled to electronic leads. Within the framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-18 A. Khedri , T. A. Costi , V. Meden

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay