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The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

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A first-principles approach based on Density Functional Theory and Non-Equilibrium Green's functions is used to study the molecular transport system consisting of benzenedithiolate connected with monoatomic gold and platinum electrodes.…

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Electronic transport properties of monolayer graphene with extreme physical bending up to 90o angle are studied using ab Initio first-principle calculations. The importance of key structural parameters including step height, curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 Haiyuan Gao , Yang Xu , Meijiao Li , Zhendong Guo , Hongshen Chen , Zhonghe Jin , Bin Yu

Correlation effects within the GW approximation have been incorporated into the Keldysh non-equilibrium transport formalism. We show that GW describes the Kondo effect and the zero-temperature transport properties of the Anderson model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Kristian S. Thygesen , Angel Rubio

We explore electron transport properties for the model of benzene-1, 4-dithiolate (BDT) molecule and for some other geometric models of benzene molecule attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes using the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Santanu K. Maiti

We consider the singular electron-electron interaction corrections to the transport coefficients in disordered metals to test the validity of the Wiedemann-Franz law. We develop a local, quantum kinetic equation approach in which the charge…

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Stationary electric transport in semiconductor nanostructures is studied by the method of nonequilibrium Green functions. In the case of sequential tunneling the results are compared with density matrix theory, providing almost identical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Andreas Wacker

The transport properties of quantum dots with up to N=7 electrons ranging from the weak to the strong interacting regime are investigated via the projected Hartree-Fock technique. As interactions increase radial order develops in the dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 F. Cavaliere , U. De Giovannini , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

We have constructed a lattice Wigner-Weyl code that generalizes the Buot-Jensen algorithm to the calculation of electron transport in two-dimensional circular-cylindrically symmetric structures, where the Wigner function equation is solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Greg Recine , Bernard Rosen , Hong-Liang Cui

Access to magnetic excitation spectra of single atoms deposited on surfaces is nowadays possible by means of low-temperature inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We present a first-principles method for the calculation of inelastic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Benedikt Schweflinghaus , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Antonio T. Costa , Samir Lounis

We formulate a semiclassical theory for electron transport in open quantum systems with electron-phonon interactions adequate for situations when the system's phonon dynamics is comparable with the electron transport timescale. Starting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Maicol A. Ochoa

We describe a method to calculate the electronic properties of an insulator under an applied electric field. It is based on the minimization of an electric enthalpy functional with respect to the orbitals, which behave as Wannier functions…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-22 Pawel Lenarczyk , Mathieu Luisier

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

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The electronic structure of organic-inorganic interfaces often feature resonances originating from discrete molecular orbitals coupled to continuum lead states. An example are molecular junctions, individual molecules bridging electrodes,…

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Transport in strongly correlated fermions cannot be understood by fermionic quasiparticles alone. We present a theoretical framework for quantum transport that incorporates strong local correlations of fermion pairs. These contact…

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A combination of ab initio simulations and linear-scaling Green's functions techniques is used to analyze the transport properties of long (up to one micron) carbon nanotubes with realistic disorder. The energetics and the influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-03 Blanca Biel , F. J. Garcia-Vidal , Angel Rubio , Fernando Flores

An electron within a mesoscopic (quantum-coherent) spintronic structure is described by a single wave function which, in the presence of both charge scattering and spin-orbit coupling, encodes an information about {\em entanglement} of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

The transport properties of junctions composed of a central region tunnel-coupled to external electrodes are frequently studied within the single-impurity Anderson model with Hubbard on-site interaction. In the present work, we supplement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Ulrich Eckern , Karol I. Wysokiński

We present a new code to evaluate thermoelectric and electronic transport properties of extended systems with a maximally-localized Wannier function basis set. The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations for the homogeneous infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Giovanni Pizzi , Dmitri Volja , Boris Kozinsky , Marco Fornari , Nicola Marzari