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We present a machine learning approach that allows to characterize the disorder potential of a two-dimensional electronic system from its quantum transport properties. Numerically simulated transport data for a large number of disorder…

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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…

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Quantum transport properties through some multilevel quantum dots sandwiched between two metallic contacts are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. Here we do parametric calculations, based on the tight-binding model, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

A non-equilibrium theory describing the charge qubit dynamics measured by a quantum point contact is developed based on Schwinger-Keldysh's approach. Using the real-time diagram technique, we derive the master equation to all orders in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ming-Tsung Lee , Wei-Min Zhang

The theoretical description of strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium presents several challenges and a number of open questions persist. In this paper we focus on nonlinear electronic transport through an interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Prasenjit Dutt , Jens Koch , J. E. Han , Karyn Le Hur

In quantum systems, one usually seeks to minimize dephasing noise and disorder. The efficiency of transport in a quantum system is usually degraded by the presence of noise and disorder. However, it has been shown that the combination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Zhang , Tony E. Lee , H. R. Sadeghpour

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Modeling nanoscale devices quantum mechanically is a computationally challenging problem where new methods to solve the underlying equations are in a dire need. In this paper, we present an approach to calculate the charge density in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-07 U. Hetmaniuk , Y. Zhao , M. P. Anantram

In the framework of the quantum theory of many-particle systems, we study the compatibility of approximated Non-Equilibrium Green Functions (NEGFs) and of approximated solutions of the Dyson equation with a modified continuity equation of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 F. Minotti , G. Modanese

We develop a general theory of non-equilibrium states based on the Keldysh formalism, in particular, for charged-particle systems under static uniform electromagnetic fields. The Dyson equation for the uniform stationary state is rewritten…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shigeki Onoda , Naoyuki Sugimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

This lecture is a tutorial introduction to coherent effects in disordered electronic systems. Avoiding technicalities as most as possible, I present some personal points of view to describe well-known signatures of phase coherence like weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilles Montambaux

We report density-functional theory (DFT), atomistic simulations of the non-equilibrium transport properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs). Results have been obtained within a self-consistent approach based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Latessa , A. Pecchia , A. Di Carlo

The standard model of Mn doping in GaAs is subjected to a coherent potential approximation (CPA) treatment. Transport coefficients are evaluated within the linear response Kubo formalism. Both normal (NHE) and anomalous contributions (AHE)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Louis-Francois Arsenault , B. Movaghar , P. Desjardins , A. Yelon

The Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method was established in the 1960's through the classic work of Schwinger, Kadanoff, Baym, Keldysh and others using many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and the diagrammatic theory for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Kerem Y. Camsari , Shuvro Chowdhury , Supriyo Datta

Quantum transport in disordered systems is studied using a polaron-based master equation. The polaron approach is capable of bridging the results from the coherent band-like transport regime governed by the Redfield equation to incoherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Chee Kong Lee , Jeremy Moix , Jianshu Cao

Excitonic transport in static disordered one dimensional systems is studied in the presence of thermal fluctuations that are described by the Haken-Strobl-Reineker model. For short times, non-diffusive behavior is observed that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Jeremy M. Moix , Michael Khasin , Jianshu Cao

We consider the problem of heat transport by vibrational modes (conduction) between Langevin thermostats connected by a central device. The latter is anharmonic and can be subject to large temperature differences and thus be out of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Keivan Esfarjani

We present an ab initio inelastic quantum transport approach based on maximally localized Wannier functions. Electronic-structure properties are calculated with density-functional theory in a planewave basis, and electron-vibration coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Sejoong Kim , Nicola Marzari

We investigate the impact on basic quantum transport properties of disorder-induced exceptional points (EPs) that emerge in a disorder-averaged Green's function description of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semimetals with spin- or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

Nonequilibrium quantum transport is of central importance in nanotechnology. Its description requires the understanding of strong electronic correlations, which couple atomic-scale phenomena to the nanoscale. So far, research in correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 A. Erpenbeck , E. Gull , G. Cohen