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As the characteristic lengths of advanced electronic devices are approaching the atomic scale, ab initio simulation method, with fully consideration of quantum mechanical effects, becomes essential to study the quantum transport phenomenon…

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This article reviews the application of the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to the simulation of novel photovoltaic devices utilizing quantum confinement effects in low dimensional absorber structures. It covers well-known…

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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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

The extraordinary quantum properties of nonequilibrium systems governed by dissipative dynamics have become a focal point in contemporary scientific inquiry. The Nonequilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) theory provides a versatile method for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-19 Gianluca Stefanucci

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the framework of the nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

We present an atomistic quantum transport simulation framework based on the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism to model impact ionization in semiconductor avalanche devices, with direct relevance to near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Burdine , Nischal Binod Gautam , Enrique P. Blair

With recent developments in spintronics, it is now possible to envision spin-driven devices with magnets and interconnects that require a new class of transport models using generalized Fermi functions and currents, each with four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Kerem Y. Camsari , Samiran Ganguly , Deepanjan Datta , Supriyo Datta

To explore whether the density-functional theory non-equilibrium Green's function formalism (DFT-NEGF) provides a rigorous framework for quantum transport, we carried out time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-01 ChiYung Yam , Xiao Zheng , GuanHua Chen , Yong Wang , Thomas Frauenheim , Thomas A. Niehaus

Employing the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we develop a fully quantum mechanical model to study the coupled electron-phonon transport in one-dimensional atomic junctions in the presence of a weak electron-phonon interaction. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 J. T. Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang

Heating and heat conduction in molecular junctions are considered within a general NEGF formalism. We obtain a unified description of heating in current carrying molecular junctions as well as the electron and phonon contributions to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method with B\"uttiker probe scattering self-energies is assessed by comparing its predictions for the thermal boundary resistance with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For simplicity, the…

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamil Walczak

We propose an efficient procedure to obtain Green's functions by combining the shifted conjugate orthogonal conjugate gradient (shifted COCG) method with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method based on a real-space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Shigeru Iwase , Takeo Hoshi , Tomoya Ono

Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) and quantum master equation (QME) are two main classes of approaches for electronic transport. We discuss various Floquet variances of these formalisms for transport properties of a quantum dot driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Vahid Mosallanejad , Yu Wang , Wenjie Dou

We discuss the calculation of the carrier mobility in silicon films within the quantum Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) framework. We introduce a new method for the extraction of the carrier mobility that is free from contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Yann-Michel Niquet , Viet-Hung Nguyen , François Triozon , Ivan Duchemin , Olivier Nier , Denis Rideau

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

Non-equilibrium Green's Function (NGF) method is a powerful tool for studying the evolution of quantum many-body systems. Different types of correlations can be systematically incorporated within the formalism. The time evolution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 M. H. Mahzoon , P. Danielewicz , A. Rios

Based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF), we develop a quantum nonlinear theory to study time-dependent ac transport properties in the low frequency and nonlinear bias voltage regimes. By expanding NEGF in terms of time to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Fuming Xu , Jian Chen , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wan

The nonequilibrium Green's function formalism provides a versatile and powerful framework for numerical studies of nonequilibrium phenomena in correlated many-body systems. For calculations starting from an equilibrium initial state, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Matthias Murray , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Philipp Werner

We present an approach to calculate ballistic phonon transport that combines the atomistic Green's function (AGF) method with ab initio results. For the inter atomic potential we use the harmonic approach. The equilibrium positions of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-11 M. Bachmann , M. Czerner , S. Edaldati-Boostan , C. Heiliger