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A theory is presented for low-frequency current and voltage correlators of a mesoscopic conductor embedded in a macroscopic electromagnetic environment. This Keldysh field theory evaluated at its saddle-point provides the microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kindermann , Yu. V. Nazarov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the transport properties of two double quantum dots in a parallel arrangement at temperatures of a few Kelvin. Thereby, we show that decoherence entailed by the substrate phonons affects the shot noise. For asymmetric coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-10 Rafael Sánchez , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi , Gloria Platero

We observe a series of sharp resonant features in the tunnelling differential conductance of InAs quantum dots. We found that dissipative quantum tunnelling has a strong influence on the operation of nano-devices. Because of such tunnelling…

Using the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function technique, we study the current and shot noise spectroscopy of a single interacting quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads with different polarizations. The polarizations of leads can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rong Lu , Zhi-Rong Liu

We formulate a theoretical framework to describe multiparticle current transport in planar superconducting tunnel junctions with diffusive electrodes. The approach is based on direct solving of quasiclassical Keldysh-Green function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Vasenko , E. N. Bratus' , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

Field-effect transistors (FETs) predominantly utilize electrons for signal processing in modern electronics. In contrast, phonon-based field-effect transistors (PFETs)-which employ phonons for active thermal management-remain markedly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 H. F. Feng , Z. Y. Xu , B. Liu , Zhi-Xin Guo

Electron transport through a diatomic molecular tunnel junction shows wave like interference phenomenon. By using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory, we have explicitly presented current and differential conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Muhammad Imran

The thermal transport across metal-insulator interface can be characterized by electron-phonon interaction through which an electron lead is coupled to a phonon lead if phonon-phonon coupling at the interface is very weak. We investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Lifa Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

In the present work, we study heat transport through a one dimensional time-dependent nanomechanical system. The microscopic model consists of coupled chains of atoms, considering local and non-local interactions between particles. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Natalia Beraha , M. Florencia Carusela , Alejandro Soba

Eliashberg theory generalized for the account of the electron-hole nonequivalence and electron correlations in the vertex function is used. The phonon contribution to the nodal electron Green function in cuprates is viewed. At non- zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 E. A. Mazur

This review deals with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method applied to the problems of energy transport due to atomic vibrations (phonons), primarily for small junction systems. We present a pedagogical introduction to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Huanan Li , Juzar Thingna

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

The electrical conductance, thermal conductance, thermal power and figure of merit (ZT) of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into an insulator matrix connected with metallic electrodes are theoretically investigated in the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David M. -T. Kuo , Yia-chung Chang

Coherent charge and heat transport through periodically driven nanodevices provide a platform for studying thermoelectric effects on the nanoscale. Here we study a junction comprising a quantum dot connected to two fermionic terminals by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Debashree Chowdhury , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We present a method, based on characterizing efficiency fluctuations, to asses the performance of nanoscale thermoelectric junctions. This method accounts for effects typically arising in small junctions, namely, stochasticity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

We study the electronic transport in a molecular junction in which each site is coupled to a local phonon bath using the non-equilibrium Green's function method. We observe the length period of the oscillatory conductance in odd-numbered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-12 Ya-Lin Lo , Shih-Jye Sun , Ying-Jer Kao

We examine the statistics of current fluctuations in a junction with a quantum dot described by Kondo Hamiltonian. With the help of Keldysh technique we calculate shot noise as a function of applied voltage at zero temperature using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Golub

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 investigate electronic distributions in nonequilibrium tunnel junctions subject to a high voltage bias $V$ under competing electron-electron and electron-phonon relaxation processes. We derive conditions for reaching quasi-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. B. Kopnin , Y. M. Galperin , J. Bergli , V. M. Vinokur

We consider transport in the Poissonian regime between edge states in the quantum Hall effect. The backscattering potential is assumed to be arbitrary, as it allows for multiple tunneling paths. We show that the Schottky relation between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-18 Denis Chevallier , Jérôme Rech , Thibaut Jonckheere , Claire Wahl , Thierry Martin
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