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We study the quantum transport and the nonequilibrium vibrational states of a quantum dot embedded between a normal and a superconducting lead with the charge on the quantum dot linearly coupled to a harmonic oscillator of frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Pascal Stadler , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

A polaron model proposed as a possible mechanism for nonlinear conductance [Galperin M, Ratner M A, and Nitzan A 2005 Nano Lett. 5 125-30] is revisited with focus on the differences between the weak and strong molecule-lead coupling cases.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-26 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

We study a steady state non-equilibrium transport between two interacting helical edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator, described by helical Luttinger liquids, through a quantum dot. For non-interacting dot the current is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-02 Sung-Po Chao , Salman A. Silotri , Chung-Hou Chung

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 present consistent results for molecular conduction using two central-complementary approaches: the non-equilibrium Green's function technique and the quantum master equation method. Our model describes electronic conduction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

We study nonequilibrium quantum transport through a mesoscopic wire coupled via local exchange to a ferromagnetic spin chain. Using the Keldysh formalism in the self-consistent Born approximation, we identify fingerprints of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Reininghaus , Thomas Korb , Herbert Schoeller

Employing a combination of a sign-free Monte Carlo approach and nonequilibrium Green's function techniques, we study nonequilibrium charge transport in a model heterostructure, where a two-dimensional spin-less Falicov-Kimball system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-03 Martin Žonda , Michael Thoss

We report first principles analysis of electron-phonon coupling in molecular devices under external bias voltage and during current flow. Our theory and computational framework are based carrying out density functional theory within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Sergueev , D. Roubtsov , Hong Guo

In this work we study the effects of nonadiabatic external driving on the thermodynamics of an electronic system coupled to two electronic leads and to a phonon mode, with and without damping. In the limit of slow driving, we establish…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-03 Jakob Bätge , Amikam Levy , Wenjie Dou , Michael Thoss

Nonlinear transport through a quantum dot is studied in the limit of weak and strong intra-dot Coulomb interaction. For the latter regime the nonequilibrium self-consistent mean field equations for energies and spectral weights of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Sandalov , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We investigate models of molecular junctions which constitute minimal Hamiltonians to account for zero-bias-anomaly and the satellite features of inelastic transport by molecular phonons. Through nonlinear transport calculations with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. E. Han

Correlation effects in the transport properties of a single quantum level coupled to electron reservoirs are discussed theoretically using a non-equilibrium Green functions approach. Our method is based on the introduction of a second-order…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , F. Flores

Electron transport through a double quantum dot system is studied with taking into account electron-phonon interaction. The Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism is used to compute the current and transmission coefficient of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

Using nonequilibrium perturbation theory, we investigate the nonlinear transport through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime in the presence of a magnetic field. We calculate the leading logarithmic corrections to the local magnetization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Paaske , A. Rosch , P. Wölfle

We study transport through an interacting model system consisting of a central correlated site coupled to finite bandwidth tight-binding leads, which are considered as effectively noninteracting. Its nonequilibrium properties are determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 A. -M. Uimonen , E. Khosravi , G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth , R. van Leeuwen , E. K. U. Gross

We pioneerly investigate the non-equilibrium transport near a quantum phase transition in a generic and relatively simple case model, the dissipative resonant level model, that has many ramifications in nanosystems. We formulate a rigorous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chung-Hou Chung , Karyn Le Hur , Matthias Vojta , Peter Wölfle

In this work we investigate the effects of the electron-electron interaction between a molecular junction and the metallic leads in time-dependent quantum transport. We employ the recently developed embedded Kadanoff-Baym method [Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Myöhänen , R. Tuovinen , T. Korhonen , G. Stefanucci , R. van Leeuwen

Spin-dependent transport through a two-level quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime is analyzed theoretically by means of a real-time diagrammatic technique. It is shown that the current, tunnel magnetoresistance, and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a molecular level weakly coupled to a single coherent phonon/vibration mode has been studied for superconducting leads. The Keldysh Green function formalism is used to compute the current for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , C. Mora , T. Martin

We have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong