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We study the population dynamics and quantum transport efficiency of a multi-site dissipative system driven by a random telegraph noise (RTN) by using a variational polaron master equation for both linear chain and ring configurations. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Arzu Kurt , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Jyrki Piilo

We derive a closed equation of motion for the one particle density matrix of a quantum system coupled to multiple baths using the Redfield master equation combined with a mean-field approximation. The steady-state solution may be found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zekun Zhuang , Jaime Merino , J. B. Marston

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 present the Python Tree Tensor Network package (pyTTN) for the evaluation of dynamical properties of closed and open quantum systems that makes use of Tree Tensor Network (TTN), or equivalently the multi-layer multiconfiguration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Lachlan P Lindoy , Daniel Rodrigo-Albert , Yannic Rath , Ivan Rungger

The transport properties of junctions composed of a central region tunnel-coupled to external electrodes are frequently studied within the single-impurity Anderson model with Hubbard on-site interaction. In the present work, we supplement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Ulrich Eckern , Karol I. Wysokiński

A scheme of universal quantum computation on a chain of qubits is described that does not require local control. All the required operations, an Ising-type interaction and spatially uniform simultaneous one-qubit gates, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert Raussendorf

We calculate the local Green function for a quantum-mechanical particle with hopping between nearest and next-nearest neighbors on the Bethe lattice, where the on-site energies may alternate on sublattices. For infinite connectivity the…

Progress in manufacturing technology has allowed us to probe the behavior of devices on a smaller and faster scale than ever before. With increasing miniaturization, quantum effects come to dominate the transport properties of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Bracher , Manfred Kleber , Tobias Kramer

In this paper we present KiT-RT (Kinetic Transport Solver for Radiation Therapy), an open-source C++ based framework for solving kinetic equations in radiation therapy applications. The aim of this code framework is to provide a collection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jonas Kusch , Steffen Schotthöfer , Pia Stammer , Jannick Wolters , Tianbai Xiao

The description of quantum transport in the strong system-reservoir coupling regime poses a significant theoretical and computational challenge that demands specialized tools for accurate analysis. RealTimeTransport is a new open-source C++…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Konstantin Nestmann , Martin Leijnse , Maarten R. Wegewijs

The quantum Hall conductivity in the presence of constant magnetic field may be represented as the topological TKNN invariant. Recently the generalization of this expression has been proposed for the non - uniform magnetic field. \rev{The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 C. X. Zhang , M. A. Zubkov

We propose a method for Hamiltonian engineering in quantum information processing architectures that requires no local control, but only relies on collective qubit rotations and field gradients. The technique achieves a spatial modulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Ashok Ajoy , Paola Cappellaro

The objective of this paper is to describe a simple phenomenological approach for including incoherent dephasing processes in quantum transport models. The presented illustrative numerical results show this model provides the flexibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roksana Golizadeh-Mojarad , Supriyo Datta

We develop a method for the calculation of ballistic transport from first principles. The multiple scattering screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) method is combined with a Green's function formulation of the Landauer approach for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Ph. Mavropoulos , N. Papanikolaou , P. H. Dederichs

We investigate multi-terminal quantum transport through single monocyclic aromatic annulene molecules, and their derivatives, using the nonequilibrium Green function approach in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. A new device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Cardamone , C. A. Stafford , S. Mazumdar

The rising interest in Dirac materials, condensed matter systems where low-energy electronic excitations are described by the relativistic Dirac Hamiltonian, entails a need for microscopic effective models to analytically describe their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Jeyson Támara-Isaza , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

Distributing quantum workloads over many Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) is a crucial step in scaling up quantum computers toward practical quantum advantage due to the limitations in size of a single QPU. In the absence of high-fidelity…

In this thesis, we investigate the emergence of kinetic processes in finite quantum systems. We first generalize the Redfield theory to describe the dynamics of a small quantum system weakly interacting with an environment of finite heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 Massimiliano Esposito

The Green's function method is recognized to be a very powerful tool for modelling quantum transport in nanoscale electronic devices. As atomistic calculations are generally expensive, numerical methods and related algorithms have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier