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We develop a consistent method for calculating non-equilibrium Green's functions for a nano-sized dot coupled to electron reservoirs by tunneling. The leads are generally at different chemical potentials (non-equilibrium), and the dot may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jung Hoon Han

We develop a theory for charge and spin current between two canted magnetic leads flowing through a quantum dot with an arbitrary local interaction. For a noncollinear magnetic configuration, we calculate equilibrium and nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

On the basis of the Keldysh method of non-equilibrium systems, we develop a theory of electron tunneling in normal-metal/superconductor junctions. By using the tunneling Hamiltonian model (being appropriate for the tight-binding systems),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Xin-Zhong Yan , Hongwei Zhao , Chia-Ren Hu

The electron tunneling through a molecular junction modeled by a single site weakly coupled to two leads is studied in the presence of a time-dependent external field using a master equation approach. In the case of small bias voltages and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guangqi Li , Michael Schreiber , Ulrich Kleinekathoefer

Using non-equilibrium Green's functions, we derive a formula for the electron current through a lead-molecule-lead nanojunction where the interactions are not restricted to the central region, but are spread throughout the system, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We derive the nonequilibrium conductance matrix for open stationary Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) described by a deterministic mass action kinetic equation. As an illustration, we determine the nonequilibrium conductance matrix of a CRN…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-27 Paul Raux , Christophe Goupil , Gatien Verley

The molecular junction geometry is modelled in terms of nuclear degrees of freedom that are embedded in a stochastic quantum environment of non-equilibrium electrons. Time-evolution of the molecular geometry is governed via a mean force, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

We theoretically investigate a photosystem II-based reaction center modeled as a nonequilibrium quantum junction. We specifically focus on the electron-electron interactions that enable cotunneling events to be captured through quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Debasish Sharma , Manash Jyoti Sarmah , Mriganka Sandilya , Himangshu Prabal Goswami

A multi-level Anderson model is employed to simulate the system of a nanostructure tunnel junction with any number of one-particle energy levels. The tunneling current, including both shell-tunneling and shell-filling cases, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. -T. Kuo , Yia-Chung Chang

Stochastically switching force terms appear frequently in models of biological systems under the action of active agents such as proteins. The interaction of switching force and Brownian motion can create an "effective thermal equilibrium"…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-17 Benjamin L. Walker , Katherine Newhall

For a non-superconducting system, the electronic tunneling current through an insulating barrier is calculated, including interaction effects. The exact Hamiltonian of the full system is projected onto the subspaces of the "left" and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Kelly R. Patton

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Albrecht , Bo Song , Alexander Schnurpfeil

Current formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks only consider chemostats as free-energy sources sustaining nonequilibrium behaviours. Here, we extend the theory to include incoherent light as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-16 Emanuele Penocchio , Riccardo Rao , Massimiliano Esposito

The electric conductance of a molecular junction is calculated by recasting the Keldysh formalism in Liouville space. Dyson equations for nonequilibrium many body Green's functions (NEGF) are derived directly in real (physical) time. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Harbola , S. Mukamel

Experimental measurements of electron transport properties of molecular junctions are often performed in solvents. Solvent-molecule coupling and physical properties of the solvent can be used as the external stimulus to control electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Maxim F. Gelin , Daniel S. Kosov

We present quantum electron transport theory that incorporates dynamical effects of motion of atoms on electrode-molecule interfaces in the calculations of the electric current. The theory is based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

We discuss the two-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle that is confined to a harmonic trap and driven by a shear flow. The surrounding medium induces memory effects modelled by a linear, typically nonreciprocal coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Lea Fernandez , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The nonequilibrium tunnelling center model of a localized electronic level coupled to a fluctuating two-state system and to two electronic reservoirs, is solved via an Anderson-Yuval-Hamann mapping onto a plasma of alternating positive and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aditi Mitra , Andrew J. Millis

An approach which allows to include the corrections from non-orthogonality of electron states in contacts and quantum dots is developed. Comparison of the energy levels and charge distributions of electrons in 1D quantum dot (QD) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Fransson , O. Eriksson , B. Johansson , I. Sandalov

Electron gas in a wire connected to two terminals with potential drop is studied with the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. Recent studies, where the current is enforced to flow with a Lagrange-multiplier term, demonstrated that the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoshihiro Nishiyama