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I review the quantum theory of the electron moving in a random environment. First, the quantum mechanics of individual particles scattered on a random potential is discussed. The quantum-mechanical description is extended to many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-13 Václav Janiš

Expressions for the entropy and equations for the quantum distribution functions in systems of non-interacting fermions and bosons with an arbitrary, including small, number of particles are obtained in the paper

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Yu. M. Poluektov , A. A. Soroka

We demonstrate an efficient nonequilibrium Green's function transport calculation procedure based on the real-space finite-difference method. The direct inversion of matrices for obtaining the self-energy terms of electrodes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoya Ono , Yoshiyuki Egami , Kikuji Hirose

The nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) of a quantum network is central to a host of physical and biological scenarios. Examples include natural processes such as vision and photosynthesis, as well as technical devices such as photocells,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Loïc Joubert-Doriol , Kenneth A. Jung , Artur F. Izmaylov , Paul Brumer

Ergodic many-body systems are expected to reach quasi-thermal equilibrium. Here we demonstrate that, surprisingly, high-energy electrons, which are injected into a quantum Hall edge mode with finite range interactions, stabilize at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Stefan G. Fischer , Yigal Meir , Yuval Gefen , Bernd Rosenow

We present a generalized approach for computing electron conductance and I-V characteristics in multiterminal junctions from first-principles. Within the framework of Keldysh theory, electron transmission is evaluated employing an O(N)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

Standard derivations of the functional integral in non-equilibrium quantum field theory are based on the discrete time representation. In this work we derive the non-equilibrium functional integral for non-interacting bosons and fermions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Filippo Bovo

Using a combination of numerically exact and renormalization-group techniques we study the nonequilibrium transport of electrons in an one-dimensional interacting system subject to a quasiperiodic potential. For this purpose we calculate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-01 Yevgeny Bar Lev , Dante M. Kennes , Christian Klöckner , David R. Reichman , Christoph Karrasch

The standard formulation of tunneling transport rests on an open-boundary modeling. There, conserving approximations to nonequilibrium Green function or quantum-statistical mechanics provide consistent but computational costly approaches;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Per Hyldgaard

We show, using a tight-binding model and time-dependent density-functional theory, that a quasi-steady state current can be established dynamically in a finite nanoscale junction without any inelastic effects. This is simply due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil Bushong , Na Sai , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We study inelastic electron tunneling through a molecular junction using the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. The effect of the mutual influence between the phonon and the electron subsystems on the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

We consider an overdamped particle with a general physical mechanism that creates noisy active movement (e.g., a run-and-tumble particle or active Brownian particle etc.), that is confined by an external potential. Focusing on the limit in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Naftali R. Smith

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

A general approach based on gauge invariance requirements has been developed for automatic construction of quantum kinetic equation in electron systems, far for equilibrium. Proposed theoretical scheme has high generality and automatism and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 G. I. Zebrev

We explore electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs We trace the transition from the Coulomb blockade regime to Kondo regime in the electron transport through the dot occuring when we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-24 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We develop nonequilibribrium Green's function based transport theory, which includes effects of nonadiabatic nuclear motion in the calculation of the electric current in molecular junctions. Our approach is based on the separation of slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

We discuss a numerical method to study electron transport in mesoscopic devices out of equilibrium. The method is based on the solution of operator equations of motion, using efficient Chebyshev time propagation techniques. Its peculiar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-20 A. Alvermann , H. Fehske

By viewing the non-equilibrium transport setup as a quantum open system, we propose a reduced-density-matrix based quantum transport formalism. At the level of self-consistent Born approximation, it can precisely account for the correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Jiushu Shao , YiJing Yan

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a physics-inspired learning algorithm that uses stationary states of a dynamical system both for inference and learning. In its original formulation it is limited to conservative systems, $\textit{i.e.}$ to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Antonino Emanuele Scurria , Dimitri Vanden Abeele , Bortolo Matteo Mognetti , Serge Massar

We present a numerical approach to construct a non-equilibrium many-body statistical operator $\hat{\rho}_\mathrm{rel}$ for an adaptive subspace of relevant quasi-bound electronic states in a semiconductor nanowire-based field-effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 J. M. Castelo , K. M. Indlekofer