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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…

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We investigate electron transport in disordered Hubbard chains contacted to macroscopic leads, via the non-equilibrium Green's functions technique. We observe a cross-over of currents and conductances at finite bias which depends on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Karlsson , Claudio Verdozzi

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

We derive a general expression for the electron nonequilibrium (NE) distribution function in the context of steady state quantum transport through a two-terminal nanodevice with interaction. The central idea for the use of NE distributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 H. Ness

A new diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo approach is proposed to deal with the imaginary time propagator involving both dynamic disorder (i.e., electron-phonon interactions) and static disorder of local or nonlocal nature in a unified and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu-Chen Wang , Yi Zhao

A diagrammatic technique for two-particle vertex functions is used to describe systematically the influence of spatial quantum coherence and backscattering effects on transport properties of noninteracting electrons in a random potential.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-16 V. Janis

In this thesis we showed that Non-equilibrium Green's Function Perturbation Theory (NEGF) is really the overarching perturbative transport theory. This is shown in great detail by using NEGF as a starting point and developing in 3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Meng Lee Leek

Recent work has revealed a general procedure for incorporating disorder into the semiclassical model of carrier transport, whereby the predictions of quantum linear response theory can be recovered within a quantum kinetic approach based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 M. Mehraeen

Quantum transport simulations are essential for understanding and designing nanoelectronic devices, yet the long-standing trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency has limited their practical applications. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Dongying Lin , Yike Huang , Linfeng Zhang , Shimin Hou , Qiangqiang Gu

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 develop an iterative, numerically exact approach for the treatment of nonequilibrium quantum transport and dissipation problems that avoids the real-time sign problem associated with standard Monte Carlo techniques. The method requires a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dvira Segal , Andrew J. Millis , David R. Reichman

We present an ab-initio formalism for the calculation of transport properties in compositionally disordered systems within the framework of the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker non-local coherent potential approximation. Our formalism is based upon…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 P. R. Tulip , J. B. Staunton , S. Lowitzer , D. Ködderitzsch , H. Ebert

We present the implementation of spinor quantum transport within the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) code TranSIESTA based on Density Functional Theory (DFT). First-principles methods play an essential role in molecular and material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Nils Wittemeier , Nick Papior , Mads Brandbyge , Zeila Zanolli , Pablo Ordejón

We develop a microscopic theory of disorder-induced localization for a quantum particle moving in a fully ionized classical one-component plasma, within the static-fluctuation approximation. The random potential acting on the particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yury A. Budkov

A generalized Langevin equation with quantum baths (QMD) for thermal transport is derived with the help of nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulation. The exact relationship of the quasi-classical approximation to NEGF is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Xiaoxi Ni , Jin-Wu Jiang

Quantum systems in extreme conditions can exhibit universal behavior far from equilibrium associated to nonthermal fixed points with a wide range of topical applications from early-universe inflaton dynamics and heavy-ion collisions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Jürgen Berges , Benjamin Wallisch

Disorder scattering plays important roles in quantum transport as well as various Hall effects, including the second-order nonlinear Hall effect induced by Berry curvature dipole. Calculation of disorder-averaged transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Gaoyang Li , MiaoMiao Wei , Fuming Xu , Jian Wang

Quantum dots are versatile systems for exploring quantum transport, electron correlations, and many-body phenomena such as the Kondo effect. While equilibrium properties are well understood through methods like the numerical renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Gustavo Diniz , Silvio Quintino , Vivian V. França

We extend the single-site coherent potential approximation (CPA) to include the effects of non-local disorder correlations (alloy short-range order) on the electronic structure of random alloy systems. This is achieved by mapping the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Laad , L. Craco

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a one-dimensional complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain by directly solving for the steady state Green's functions in terms of small perturbations around their equilibrium values. The model exhibits…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Cristian Zanoci , Brian Swingle