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We present here a brief overview of our work in developing a convolutionless quantum master equation approach suitable for mesoscopic sized systems. Our final equation can be used in the regimes where the golden rule approach is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric R. Bittner , Andrey Pereverzev

We propose a self-consistent generalized quantum master equation (GQME) to describe electron transport through molecular junctions. In a previous study [M.Esposito and M.Galperin. Phys. Rev. B 79, 205303 (2009)], we derived a time-nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Massimiliano Esposito , Michael Galperin

Motivated by a range of biological applications related to the transport of molecules in cells, we present a modular framework to treat first-passage problems for diffusion in partitioned spaces. The spatial domains can differ with respect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-28 Daniela Frömberg , Felix Höfling

We investigate the nonstationary electronic transport in noninteracting nanostructures driven by a finite bias and time-dependent signals applied at their contacts to the leads. The systems are modelled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Time-dependent transport through two capacitively coupled quantum dots is studied in the framework of the generalized master equation. The Coulomb interaction is included within the exact diagonalization method. Each dot is connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

The time-dependent transport through single-molecule magnets coupled to magnetic or non-magnetic electrodes is studied in the framework of the generalized master equation method. We investigate the transient regime induced by the periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 V. Moldoveanu , I. V. Dinu , B. Tanatar , C. P. Moca

We use a non-Markovian master equation to describe the transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through an electromagnetic cavity with one quantized photon mode. The central system is a finite parabolic quantum wire that is coupled weakly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Vidar Gudmundsson , Olafur Jonasson , Chi-Shung Tang , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Andrei Manolescu

The time-convolutionless master equation for the electronic populations is derived for a generic electron-phonon Hamiltonian. The equation can be used in the regimes where the golden rule approach is not applicable. The equation is applied…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrey Pereverzev , Eric R. Bittner

Predicting how a material's microscopic structure and dynamics determine its transport properties remains a fundamental challenge. To alleviate this task's often prohibitive computational expense, we propose a Mori-based generalized quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Srijan Bhattacharyya , Thomas Sayer , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

By using a time-dependent operator converting a distribution function (statistical operator) of a total system under consideration into the relevant form, new exact nonlinear generalized master equations (GMEs) are derived. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor F. Los

We consider the time-dependent electron transport through a quantum dot connected to multiple leads in the presence of the additional over-dot (bridge) tunnelling channels by using the evolution operator technique. Each terminal and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Taranko , T. Kwapinski , E. Taranko

The exact quantum dynamics of lattice models can be computationally intensive, especially when aiming for large system sizes and extended simulation times necessary to converge transport coefficients. By leveraging finite memory times to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Srijan Bhattacharyya , Thomas Sayer , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

We propose a time-dependent many-body approach to study the short-time dynamics of correlated electrons in quantum transport through nanoscale systems contacted to metallic leads. This approach is based on the time-propagation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Petri Myohanen , Adrian Stan , Gianluca Stefanucci , Robert van Leeuwen

We derive an exact master equation that captures the dynamics of a quadratic quantum system linearly coupled to a Gaussian environment of the same statistics: the Gaussian Master Equation (GME). Unlike previous approaches, our formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Antonio D'Abbruzzo , Vittorio Giovannetti , Vasco Cavina

Coupling the vibrations of an oscillator to electronic transport is a key building block for nanoelectromechanical systems. They describe many nanoscale electrical components such as molecular junctions. Inspired by recent experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

Simultaneous driving by two periodic oscillations yields a practical technique for further engineering quantum systems. For quantum transport through mesoscopic systems driven by two strong periodic terms, a non-perturbative Floquet-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Vahid Mosallanejad , Wenjie Dou

We propose a highly-scalable method to compute the statistics of charge transfer in driven conductors. The framework can be applied in situations of non-zero temperature, strong coupling to terminals and in the presence of non-periodic…

To take initial correlations into account, a method, based on the time-independent projection operator technique, that allows converting the conventional linear inhomogeneous (containing a source caused by initial correlations)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Victor F. Los

In this paper, the exact transient quantum transport of non-interacting nanostructures is investigated in the presence of initial system-lead correlations and initial lead-lead correlations for a device system coupled to general electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Pei-Yun Yang , Chuan-Yu Lin , Wei-Min Zhang

Within the hierarchical quantum master equation (HQME) framework, an approach is presented, which allows a numerically exact description of nonequilibrium charge transport in nanosystems with strong electronic-vibrational coupling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 C. Schinabeck , A. Erpenbeck , R. Härtle , M. Thoss