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Open system simulations of quantum transport provide a platform for the study of true steady states, Floquet states, and the role of temperature, time-dynamics, and fluctuations, among other physical processes. They are rapidly gaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Michael Zwolak

We have developed a method based on the embedded Kadanoff-Baym equations to study the time evolution of open and inhomogeneous systems. The equation of motion for the Green's function on the Keldysh contour is solved using different…

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

Quantum transport simulations are rapidly evolving and now encompass well-controlled tensor network techniques for many-body limits. One powerful approach combines matrix product states with extended reservoirs. In this method, continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Gabriela Wojtowicz , Justin E. Elenewski , Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak

Recently, multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) have gained significant spotlight in the literature due to its high tunneling electro-resistance together with its non-volatility. In order to analyze such devices and to have insightful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Robert Andrawis , Kaushik Roy

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 review a recent theoretical development based on non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to study heat transport in nanomechanical devices modeled by phononic systems of coupled quantum oscillators driven by ac forces and connected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Liliana Arrachea , Bruno Rizzo

We present a solution to the problem of AC current partition in a multi-probe mesoscopic conductor within the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. This allows the derivation of dynamic conductance which is appropriate for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Zainab Gholami , Farhad Khoeini

While the Landauer viewpoint constitutes a modern basis to understand nanoscale electronic transport and to realize first-principles implementations of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, seeking an alternative picture…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Juho Lee , Han Seul Kim , Yong-Hoon Kim

We consider a mesoscopic region coupled to two leads under the influence of external time-dependent voltages. The time dependence is coupled to source and drain contacts, the gates controlling the tunnel- barrier heights, or to the gates…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Antti-Pekka Jauho , Ned S. Wingreen , Yigal Meir

Nanoelectronics devices, such as quantum dot systems or single-molecule transistors, consist of a quantum nanostructure coupled to a macroscopic external electronic circuit. Thermoelectric transport between source and drain leads is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-05 Emma L. Minarelli , Jonas B. Rigo , Andrew K. Mitchell

We present an ab initio approach to electronic transport in nanoscale systems which includes electronic correlations through the GW approximation. With respect to Landauer approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT), we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Andrea Ferretti , Didier Mayou , Valerio Olevano

We study the electronic transport through uniformly bent carbon nanotubes. For this purpose, we describe the nanotube with the tight-binding model and calculate the local current flow by employing non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Eric Kleinherbers , Thomas Stegmann , Nikodem Szpak

Nonequilibrium electron transport through the Kondo impurity is investigated numerically for the system with twenty conduction-electron levels. The electron current under finite voltage drop is calculated in terms of the `conductance viewed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshihiro Nishiyama

A pedagogical introduction to matrix Green's function, focusing on its application to steady state transport through discrete-level quantum systems. Topics covered in the notes: 1. Retarded Green's function, spectral function and density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Longwen Zhou

A new method for investigating the dynamics of atomic magnetic moments in current-carrying magnetic point contacts under bias is presented. This combines the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method for evaluating the current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito , Tchavdar N. Todorov

The Two-Body Dirac equations of constraint theory are of special interest not only in view of applications for phenomenological calculations of mesonic spectra but also because they avoid no-go theorems about relativistic interactions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Matthias Lienert

The transport and gain properties of quantum cascade (QC) structures are investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) theory which includes quantum effects beyond a Boltzmann transport description. In the NGF theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -C. Lee , A. Wacker

We consider electron transport in a model of a spinless superconductor described by a Kitaev type lattice Hamiltonian where the electron interactions are modelled through a superconducting pairing term. The superconductor is sandwiched…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar

A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ahmet Ali Yanik , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta