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We present a new approach to treat correlations in nonequilibrium quantum many-particle system. The method is based on ideas of configuration interaction theory of exact nonperturbative ground state electronic structure calculations. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Alan A. Dzhioev , D. S. Kosov

Due to random dopant fluctuations, the device-to-device variability is a serious challenge to emerging nanoelectronics. In this work we present theoretical formalisms and numerical simulations of quantum transport variability, based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 Yu Zhu , Lei Liu , Hong Guo

In this work, we propose an efficient computational scheme for first-principle quantum transport simulations to evaluate the open-boundary conditions. Its partitioning differentiates from conventional methods in that the contact self-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-01 Guido Gandus , Youseung Lee , Daniele Passerone , Mathieu Luisier

Non equilibrium Green's function methods are regularly used to calculate current and charge densities in nanoscale (both molecular and semiconductor) conductors under bias. This method is mainly used for ballistic conduction but may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Paulsson

Considering von Neumann expression for reduced density matrix as thermodynamic entropy of a system strongly coupled to baths, we use nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) techniques to derive bath and energy resolved expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Nikhil Seshadri , Michael Galperin

Since proposed in the 70s, the Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method has been recognized as a standard approach to quantum transport simulations. Although it achieves superiority in simulation accuracy, the tremendous computational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yingzhanghao Zhou , Xiang Chen , Peng Zhang , Jun Wang , Lei Wang , Hong Guo

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng , Zu-Quan Zhang , Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 235428 (2011)]. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

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

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two kinds of electron-vibron interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

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

The continuous scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has led to device geometries where charged carriers are increasingly confined to ever smaller channel cross sections. This development is associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leonard Deuschle , Jiang Cao , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Anders Winka , Alexander Maeder , Nicolas Vetsch , Mathieu Luisier

With the technical progress of radio-frequency setups, high frequency quantum transport experiments have moved from theory to the lab. So far the standard theoretical approach used to treat such problems numerically--known as Keldysh or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Benoit Gaury , Joseph Weston , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

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 a quantum dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-27 Prasenjit Dutt , Jens Koch , J. E. Han , Karyn Le Hur

The calculation of work distributions in a quantum many-body system is of significant importance and also of formidable difficulty in the field of nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. To solve this problem, inspired by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhaoyu Fei , H. T. Quan

We propose a nonequilibrium version of functional renormalization within the Keldysh formalism by introducing a complex valued flow parameter in the Fermi or Bose functions of each reservoir. Our cutoff scheme provides a unified approach to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Severin G. Jakobs , Volker Meden , Herbert Schoeller

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

Multi-terminal transport setups allow to realize more complex measurements and functionalities (e.g., transistors) of nanoscale systems than the simple two-terminal arrangement. Here the steady-state density functional formalism (i-DFT) for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefan Kurth , David Jacob , Nahual Sobrino , Gianluca Stefanucci

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

We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A. Hofer , Krisztian Palotas