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The standard formulation of tunneling transport rests on an open-boundary modeling. There, conserving approximations to nonequilibrium Green function or quantum-statistical mechanics provide consistent but computational costly approaches;…
We explore multi-terminal quantum transport through a benzene molecule threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux $\phi$. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the system and all the calculations are done based on the Green's function…
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We analyze the density functional theory (DFT) description of weak interactions by employing diffusion and reptation quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, for a set of benzene-molecule complexes. While the binding energies depend…