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The zero-temperature linear response conductance through an interacting mesoscopic region attached to noninteracting leads is investigated. We present a set of formulae expressing the conductance in terms of the ground-state energy or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomaz Rejec , Anton Ramsak

We use the Kubo response functions to calculate the electrical and thermal conductivity and Seebeck coefficient at low temperatures and frequencies in the quantum-critical region for fermions on a lattice. The theory uses scattering of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-05 Hideaki Maebashi , Chandra M. Varma

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…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 Bastian Holst , Martin French , Ronald Redmer

We consider the transport properties of non-interacting, gapless one-dimensional quantum systems and of the edge modes of two-dimensional topological insulators, in the presence of time-dependent perturbations. We prove the validity of Kubo…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Marcello Porta , Harman Preet Singh

Quantum transport studies of spin-dependent phenomena in solids commonly employ the Kubo or Keldysh formulas for the nonequilibrium density operator in the steady-state linear-response regime. Its trace with operators of interest, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Simao M. Joao , Marko D. Petrovic , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , Aires Ferreira , Branislav K. Nikolic

Exact numerical results for the dc magnetoconductivity tensor of the two-dimensional spatially disordered Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (2D-YSYK) model on a square lattice, at first order in applied perpendicular magnetic field, are obtained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Davide Valentinis , Jörg Schmalian , Subir Sachdev , Aavishkar A. Patel

We report a fully microscopic theory for transconductivity, or, equivalently, momentum transfer rate, of Coulomb coupled electron systems. We use the Kubo linear response formalism, and our main formal result expresses the transconductivity…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Karsten Flensberg , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Jari M. Kinaret

The traditional Kubo formula is generalized to describe the linear response with respect to non-Abelian fields. To fulfil the demand for studying spin transport, the SU(2) Kubo formulae are derived by two conventional approaches with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

Using the Kubo formula, we show explicitly that a non-interacting electron system can not behave like a Hall-insulator, {\it ie.,} a DC resistivity matrix $\rho_{xx}\rightarrow\infty$ and $\rho_{xy}=$finite in the zero temperature limit, as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lian Zheng , H. A. Fertig

We derive a Kubo-like formula for the thermal Hall conductance of a 2d lattice systems which is free from ambiguities associated with the definition of energy magnetization. We use it to define a relative topological invariant of gapped 2d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 Anton Kapustin , Lev Spodyneiko

The conductance of one-dimensional interacting electron systems is calculated in a manner similar to Landauer's argument for non-interacting systems. Unlike in previous studies in which the Kubo formula was used, the conductance is directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Akira Shimizu

We have gone through a detailed calculation of the two-point correlation function of vector currents at finite density and magnetic field by employing the real time formalism of finite temperature field theory and Schwinger's proper time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 Sarthak Satapathy , Snigdha Ghosh , Sabyasachi Ghosh

We describe microscopic theory for the quantum transport through finite interacting systems connected to noninteracting leads. It can be applied to small systems such as quantum dots, quantum wires, atomic chain, molecule, and so forth. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Oguri

The zero temperature Hall constant R_H, described by reactive (nondissipative) conductivities, is analyzed within linear response theory. It is found that in a certain limit, R_H is directly related to the density dependence of the Drude…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 X. Zotos , F. Naef , M. Long , P. Prelovsek

We analyse nonperturbatively signal transmission patterns in Green's functions of interacting quantum fields. Quantum field theory is re-formulated in terms of the nonlinear quantum-statistical response of the field. This formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. I. Plimak , S. Stenholm

Quantum linear response theory considers only the response of a closed quantum system to a perturbation up to first order in the perturbation. This theory breaks down when the system subjects to environments and the response up to second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 H. Z. Shen , M. Qin , Y. H. Zhou , X. Q. Shao , X. X. Yi

In this expository article, we present a systematic formal derivation of the Kubo formula for the linear-response current due to a time-harmonic electric field applied to non-interacting, spinless charged particles in a finite volume in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Alexander B. Watson , Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin

We study the problem of electronic conduction in mesoscopic systems when the electrons are allowed to interact not only with static impurities, but also with a scatterer (a phase breaker(PB)) that possesses internal degrees of freedom. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pier A. Mello , Yoseph Imry , Boris Shapiro

In this review, we survey the current progress in computing transport properties in semimetals which harbour non-Fermi liquid phases. We first discuss the widely-used Kubo formalism, which can be applied to the effective theory describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Ipsita Mandal , Hermann Freire

Using the non-commutative Kubo formula for aperiodic solids [1-3] and a recently developed numerical implementation [4], we study the conductivity $\sigma$ and resistivity $\rho$ tensors as functions of Fermi level and temperature, for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Yu Xue , Emil Prodan