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A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

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A generalized Landauer formula, derived with the methods due to Keldysh, and Baym and Kadanoff, is gaining widespread use in the modeling of transport in a large number of different mesoscopic systems. We review some of the recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Antti-Pekka Jauho

We present a plane wave/pseudopotential implementation of the method to calculate electron transport properties of nanostructures. The conductance is calculated via the Landauer formula within formalism of Green's functions. Nonorthogonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhenyu Li , D. S. Kosov

We introduce a stochastic framework based on complex absorbing potentials (CAPs) to investigate exciton transport in large molecular aggregates. Within this approach, CAPs act as non-Hermitian reservoirs and sinks that enable effective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Dimitri Bazile , Justin Caram , Chern Chuang , Daniel Neuhauser

A first principle theory of charge transport in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems composed of any finite number of particles and subject to weak electro-magnetic fields is developed. Simple analytical expressions for the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liudmila A. Pozhar

We present consistent results for molecular conduction using two central-complementary approaches: the non-equilibrium Green's function technique and the quantum master equation method. Our model describes electronic conduction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

We present a detailed treatment of the nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal transport due to atomic vibrations in nanostructures. Some of the key equations, such as self-energy and conductance with nonlinear effect, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Jian-Sheng Wang , Nan Zeng , Jian Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

In the nonequilibrium Green's function approach, the approximation of the correlation self-energy at the second-Born level is of particular interest, since it allows for a maximal speed-up in computational scaling when used together with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Riku Tuovinen , Fabio Covito , Michael A. Sentef

We present a nonequilibrium strong-coupling approach to inhomogeneous systems of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. We demonstrate its application to the Mott-insulating phase of a two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-25 A. Dirks , K. Mikelsons , H. R. Krishnamurthy , J. K. Freericks

We formulate the theory of electron transport through coupled-quantum dots by extending the auxiliary operator representation. By using the generating functional technique, we derive the exact expressions for currents, dot-occupation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jung Hyun Oh , D. Ahn , Vladimir Bubanja

We show how to evaluate mobility profiles, characterizing the transport of confined fluids under a perturbation, from equilibrium molecular simulations. The correlation functions derived with the Green-Kubo formalism are difficult to sample…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Etienne Mangaud , Benjamin Rotenberg

We present an approach to calculate ballistic phonon transport that combines the atomistic Green's function (AGF) method with ab initio results. For the inter atomic potential we use the harmonic approach. The equilibrium positions of the…

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We describe a first-principles method for calculating electronic structure, vibrational modes and frequencies, electron-phonon couplings, and inelastic electron transport properties of an atomic-scale device bridging two metallic contacts…

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We have developed a numerical approach to compute real-time path integral expressions for quantum transport problems out of equilibrium. The scheme is based on a deterministic iterative summation of the path integral (ISPI) for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-16 S. Weiss , J. Eckel , M. Thorwart , R. Egger

We report the implementation of the real-time equation-of-motion coupled-cluster (RT-EOM-CC) cumulant Green's function method [J. Chem. Phys. 152, 174113 (2020)] within the Tensor Algebra for Many-body Methods (TAMM) infrastructure. TAMM is…

We present a fast and stable numerical technique to obtain the self-energy terms of electrodes for first-principles electron-transport calculations. Although first-principles calculations based on the real-space finite-difference method are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tomoya Ono , Shigeru Tsukamoto

We extend the highly-parallelizable open-source electronic transport code TRANSEC to perform real-space atomic-scale electronic transport calculations with periodic boundary conditions in the lateral dimensions. We demonstrate the use of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Shifeng Zhu , Baruch Feldman , Scott Dunham

We study the nonlinear elastic quantum electronic transport properties of nanoscopic devices using the Nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Green's function method allows us to expand the $I-V$ characteristics of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Elucidating transport mechanisms and predicting transport coefficients is crucial for advancing material innovation, design, and application. Yet, state-of-the-art calculations are restricted to exact simulations of small lattices with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Srijan Bhattacharyya , Thomas Sayer , Andrés Montoya-Castillo