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We discuss the foundations and extend the range of applicability of the widely used Kubo-Greenwood formula (KGF) for the electronic conductivity. The conductivity is derived from the current density, and only the probability amplitude…
Currently, the most common method to calculate transport properties for materials under extreme conditions is based on the phenomenological Kubo-Greenwood method. The results of an inquiry into the justification and context of that model…
Understanding DC electrical conductivity is crucial for the study of materials. Macroscopic DC conductivity can be calculated from first principles using the Kubo-Greenwood equation. The procedure involves finding the thermodynamic limit of…
As the foundation for a new computational implementation, we survey the calculation of the complex electrical conductivity tensor based on the Kubo-Greenwood (KG) formalism (J.\ Phys.\ Soc.\ Jpn. \textbf{12}, 570 (1957); Proc.\ Phys.\ Soc.\…
A new formulation of the Kubo-Greenwood conductivity for average atom models is given. The new formulation improves upon previous by explicitly including the ionic-structure factor. Calculations based on this new expression lead to much…
Using Kubo's linear response theory, we derive expressions for the frequency-dependent electrical conductivity (Kubo-Greenwood formula), thermopower, and thermal conductivity in a strongly correlated electron system. These are evaluated…
We investigate the electrical conductivity (sigma) of quark matter via the Kubo formula at finite temperature and zero quark density (T>0, mu=0) in the presence of an external strong magnetic field. For this purpose, we employ the dilute…
We present an ab initio calculation of the DC conductivity of amorphous silicon and hydrogenated amorphous silicon. The Kubo-Greenwood formula is used to obtain the DC conductivity, by thermal averaging over extended dynamical simulation.…
The average of densities of currents and charges, induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous are calculated at final temperatures. The Kubo formula for a conductivity tensor is generalized for spatially inhomogeneous…
We compare three models of graphene electric conductivity: a non-local Kubo model, a local model derived by Falkovsky, and finally, a non-local quantum field theory (QFT) polarization-based model. These models are supposed to provide…
We compute the electrical conductivity ($ \sigma_{el} $) in the presence of constant and homogeneous external electromagnetic field for the static quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium, which is among the important transport coefficients of QGP.…
We consider an electron coupled to a random magnetic field with local correlations and eventually non-zero average value. Starting from the source-term formalism of Levine, Libby and Pruisken, we define a generating function for static…
Recently, Rodriguez-Lopez, Wang, and Antezza [Phys. Rev. B v.111, 115428 (2025)] compared the theoretical descriptions of electric conductivity of graphene given by the Kubo model and quantum field theory in terms of the polarization…
The Kubo-Greenwood (KG) formula is often used in conjunction with Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) to compute the optical conductivity, particularly for warm dense mater. For applying the KG formula, all KS eigenstates and…
The expressions for average densities of currents and charges induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous systems are obtained. The case of finite temperatures is considered. It is shown that average values are…
The electronic and transport properties of aluminum-graphene composite materials were investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. The interfacial structure is reported for several configurations. In some cases, the…
In the Comment by Bordag et al. [Phys. Rev. B 113, 207401 (2026) and ArXiv:2506.10792], concerns are raised regarding the validity of the results presented in [Phys. Rev. B 111, 115428 (2025)], where the theoretical descriptions of the…
The Kubo formula for the electrical conductivity is rewritten in terms of a sum of Drude-like contributions associated to the exact eigenstates of the interacting system, each characterized by its own frequency-dependent relaxation time.…
The calculation of dynamical properties for matter under extreme conditions is a challenging task. The popular Kubo-Greenwood model exploits elements from equilibrium density functional theory (DFT) that allow a detailed treatment of…
We investigate the electronic transport properties of copper-graphene composites using a density-functional framework. Conduction in composites by varying the interface distance of a copper/graphene/copper (Cu/G/Cu) interface models was…