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We derive an $n$-resolved Master equation for quantum transport that includes a dependence on the number $n$ of tunneled electrons in system parameters such as tunnel rates and energy levels. We apply the formalism to describe dynamical…

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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…

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Thermal engineering of quantum devices has attracted much attention since the discovery of quantized thermal conductance of phonons. Although easily submerged in numerous excitations in macro-systems, quantum behaviors of phonons manifest…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Xiaobin Chen , Yizhou Liu , Wenhui Duan

The study of electron-phonon interaction as a prominent inelastic effect is of great importance. In the present work, we have studied the inelastic effects due to the first order electron-phonon interactions on electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Mujtaba Zahidy , Fatemeh Ghadirian , Afshin Namiranian

In the present work, we theoretically analyze the steady-state thermoelectric transport through a single-molecule junction with a vibrating bridge. Thermally induced charge current in the system is explored using a nonequilibrium Green's…

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We explore the effect of noise on the ballistic graphene-based small Josephson junctions in the framework of the resistively and capacitively shunted model. We use the non-sinusoidal current-phase relation specific for graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

Phonon-phonon interaction is systematically studied by nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulism in momentum space at finite temperatures. Within the quasi-particle approximation, phonon frequency shift and lifetime are obtained from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yong Xu , Jian-Sheng Wang , Wenhui Duan , Bing-Lin Gu , Baowen Li

We study non-equilibrium steady state transport in scale invariant quantum junctions with focus on the particle and heat fluctuations captured by the two-point current correlation functions. We show that the non-linear behavior of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Mihail Mintchev , Luca Santoni , Paul Sorba

We develop a theory of far from the equilibrium transport in arrays of tunnel junctions. We find that if the rate of the electron-electron interactions exceeds the rate of the electron-phonon energy exchange, the energy relaxation ensuring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , V. M. Vinokur , T. I. Baturina

The understanding and modeling of inelastic scattering of thermal phonons at a solid/solid interface remain an open question. We present a fully quantum theoretical scheme to quantify the effect of anharmonic phonon-phonon scattering at an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Yangyu Guo , Zhongwei Zhang , Marc Bescond , Shiyun Xiong , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz

Utilizing the non-equilibrium Green's function method, we study the local heat current flow of phonons in nanoscale ballistic graphene nanoribbon, where boundary scattering leads to the formation of atomic-scale current vortices. We further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yin-jie Chen , Jing-tao Lü

Current fluctuations are studied in a mesoscopic conductor using non-equilibrium Keldysh technique. We derive a general expression for the fluctuations in the presence of a time dependent voltage, valid for arbitrary relation between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Altshuler , L. S. Levitov , A. Yu. Yakovets

Scanning tunneling microscope induced light emission from an atomic or molecular junction has been probed from the tunneling to contact regime in recent experiments. There, the intensity of the light emission shows strong correlation with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-11 Jing-Tao Lü , Rasmus Bjerregaard Christensen , Mads Brandbyge

We analyze the effect of electron-phonon coupling on the full counting statistics of a molecular junction beyond the lowest order perturbation theory. Our approach allows to take into account analytically the feedback between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-14 D. F. Urban , R. Avriller , A. Levy Yeyati

We study the effects of time-independent nonequilibrium drive on an open 2D electron gas system coupled to 2D longitudinal acoustic phonons using the Keldysh path integral method. The layer electron-phonon system is defined at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 So Takei , Yong Baek Kim

We employ the functional renormalization group to study the effects of phonon-assisted tunneling on the nonequilibrium steady-state transport through a single level molecular quantum dot coupled to electronic leads. Within the framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-18 A. Khedri , T. A. Costi , V. Meden

We characterize the response of a Mott insulating system to a static electric field in terms of its conducting and spectral properties. Dissipation is included by a coupling to fermionic baths and to either optical or acoustic phonons. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Tommaso Maria Mazzocchi , Daniel Werner , Paolo Gazzaneo , Enrico Arrigoni

We investigate energy resolved electric current from various correlated host materials under out-of-equilibrium conditions. We find that, due to a combined effect of electron-electron interactions, non-equilibrium and multi-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei Komnik , Alexander O. Gogolin

We describe an implementation of ab-initio methodology to compute inelastic shot noise signals due to electron-vibration scattering in nanoscale junctions. The method is based on the framework of non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's functions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 R. Avriller , T. Frederiksen

We study an electron that interacts with phonons or other linear or nonlinear excitations as it resonantly tunnels. The method we use is based on mapping a many-body problem in a large variational space exactly onto a one-body problem. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Bonca , S. A. Trugman