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We consider a quantum dot, affected by a local vibrational mode and contacted to macroscopic leads, in the non-equilibrium steady-state regime. We apply a variational Lang-Firsov transformation and solve the equations of motion of the Green…

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A generalized Landauer formula, derived with the methods due to Keldysh, and Baym and Kadanoff, is gaining widespread use in the modeling of transport in a large number of different mesoscopic systems. We review some of the recent…

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A dynamical method for inelastic transport simulations in nanostructures is compared with a steady-state method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. A simplified form of the dynamical method produces, in the steady state in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Eunan J. McEniry , Thomas Frederiksen , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas , Andrew P. Horsfield

A theoretical approach for the non-equilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes with strong electron-phonon interactions is presented. It consists in a resummation of the dominant Feynman diagrams…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 R. Seoane Souto , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , R. C. Monreal

We analyse non-equilibrium transport properties of a single-state molecular quantum dot coupled to a local phonon and contacted by two electrodes. We derive the effective non-equilibrium (Keldysh) action for the phonon mode and study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander O. Gogolin , Andrei Komnik

We study the nonlinear elastic quantum electronic transport properties of nanoscopic devices using the Nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Green's function method allows us to expand the $I-V$ characteristics of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We study the heat transport due to phonons in nanomechanical structures using a phase space representation of non-equilibrium Green's functions. This representation accounts for the atomic degrees of freedom making it particularly suited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Marcone I. Sena-Junior , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Employing the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we develop a fully quantum mechanical model to study the coupled electron-phonon transport in one-dimensional atomic junctions in the presence of a weak electron-phonon interaction. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 J. T. Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang

We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport, and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite electrodes and with an applied voltage bias. Our method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Mads Brandbyge , Jose-Luis Mozos , Pablo Ordejon , Jeremy Taylor , Kurt Stokbro

We theoretically study the electronic transport in the monolayer of dithiolated phenylene vinylene oligomeres coupled to the (111) surfaces of gold electrodes. We use non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGF) and density functional theory(DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Crljen , A. Grigoriev , G. Wendin , K. Stokbro

We investigate theoretically nonequilibrium quantum transport in a quantum dot attached to a Majorana bound state. Our approach is based on the Keldysh Green's function formalism, which allows us to investigate the electric current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-17 S. J. S. da Silva , A. C. Seridonio , J. Del Nero , F. M. Souza

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

We present a formulation of a nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal current in nanojunction atomic systems with nonlinear interactions. This first-principle approach is applied to the calculation of the thermal conductance in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jian Wang , Nan Zeng

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

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

We study dynamic nonequilibrium electron charging phenomena in ballistic molecular devices at room temperature that compromise their response to bias and whose nature is evidently distinguishable from static Schottky-type potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

Stationary electric transport in semiconductor nanostructures is studied by the method of nonequilibrium Green functions. In the case of sequential tunneling the results are compared with density matrix theory, providing almost identical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Andreas Wacker

Electron transport properties of a non-interacting mesoscopic ring sandwiched between two metallic electrodes are investigated by the use of Green's function formalism. We introduce a parametric approach based on the tight-binding model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function formalism, we show that the non-equilibrium charge transport in nanoscopic quantum networks takes place via {\it current eigenmodes} that possess characteristic spatial patterns. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Tankut Can , Hui Dai , Dirk K. Morr

We do parametric calculations to elucidate multi-terminal electron transport properties through a molecular system where a single phenalenyl molecule is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic leads. A formalism based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar