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Using the partition-free time-dependent Landauer-B{\"u}ttiker formalism for transient current correlations, we study the traversal times taken for electrons to cross graphene nanoribbon (GNR) molecular junctions. We demonstrate electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Michael Ridley , Michael A. Sentef , Riku Tuovinen

We discuss an extension of our earlier work on the time-dependent Landauer--B\"uttiker formalism for noninteracting electronic transport. The formalism can without complication be extended to superconducting central regions since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Riku Tuovinen , Robert van Leeuwen , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci

We solve analytically the Kadanoff-Baym equations for a noninteracting junction connected to an arbitrary number of noninteracting wide-band terminals. The initial equilibrium state is properly described by the addition of an imaginary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Riku Tuovinen , Robert van Leeuwen , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci

We present theoretical foundations and numerical demonstration of an efficient method for performing time-dependent many-electron simulations for electronic transport. The method employs the concept of stroboscopic wavepacket basis for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-06 Martin Konôpka , Peter Bokes

We present an implementation of a new method for explicit simulations of time-dependent electric currents through nanojunctions. The method is based on unitary propagation of stroboscopic wave packet states and is designed to treat open…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Konôpka , P. Bokes

The Landauer-B\"uttiker conductivity of arbitrary uniaxial spatially dependent strain in an armchair graphene nanoribbon is studied. Due to the uniaxial character of the strain, the corresponding transfer matrix can be reduced to a product…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Abdiel E. Champo , Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

Transparent boundary conditions for the time-dependent Schrodinger equation are implemented using the R-matrix method. The employed scattering formalism is suitable for describing open quantum systems and provides the framework for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 G. A. Nemnes , Alexandra Palici , A. Manolescu

We theoretically investigate the time-dependent ballistic transport in metallic graphene nanoribbons after the sudden switch-on of a bias voltage $V$. The ribbon is divided in three different regions, namely two semi-infinite graphenic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Perfetto , G. Stefanucci , M. Cini

We investigate time-resolved charge transport through graphene nanoribbons supplemented with adsorbed impurity atoms. Depending on the location of the impurities with respect to the hexagonal carbon lattice, the transport properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Riku Tuovinen , Michael A. Sentef , Claudia Gomes da Rocha , Mauro S. Ferreira

We study charge transport in a graphene zigzag nanoribbon driven by an external time-periodic kicking potential. Using the exact solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation with a delta-kick potential acting in each period, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Babajanov , D. U. Matrasulov , R. Egger

Graphene nanoribbons provide an ideal platform for electronic interferometry in the Integer Quantum Hall regime. Here, we solve the time-dependent four-component Schroedinger equation for single carriers in graphene and expose several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Gaia Forghieri , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

Using the recently developed time-dependent Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism and Jefimenko's retarded solutions to the Maxwell equations, we show how to compute the time-dependent electromagnetic field produced by the charge and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Michael Ridley , Lev Kantorovich , Robert van Leeuwen , Riku Tuovinen

Crystalline sheets (e.g., graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides) liberated from a substrate are a paradigm for materials at criticality because flexural phonons can fluctuate into the third dimension. Although studies of static…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-10 Paul Z. Hanakata , Sourav S. Bhabesh , David Yllanes , David R. Nelson , Mark J. Bowick

To address the robustness of the transport gap induced by locally strained regions in graphene nanostructures, the effect of disorder and smoothness of the interface region is investigated within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 D. A. Bahamon , Vitor M. Pereira

Using synchronized near-infrared (NIR) and terahertz (THz) lasers, we have performed picosecond time-resolved THz spectroscopy of transient carriers in semiconductors. Specifically, we measured the temporal evolution of THz transmission and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Zudov , A. P. Mitchell , A. H. Chin , J. Kono

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

An approximate method based on adiabatic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presented, that allows for the description of the electron dynamics in nanoscale junctions under arbitrary time dependent external potentials. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Wang , C. -Y. Yam , G. H. Chen , Th. Frauenheim , T. A. Niehaus

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios
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