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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…

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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…

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We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

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

In all theoretical treatments of electron transport through single molecules between two metal electrodes, a clear distinction has to be made between a coherent transport regime with a strong coupling throughout the junction and a Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Robert Stadler , Jerome Cornil , Victor Geskin

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

In our theoretical study where we combine a nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach with density functional theory (DFT) we investigate compounds containing a ferrocene moiety which is connected to i) thiol anchor groups on both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Xin Zhao , Robert Stadler

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

Density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as one of the most versatile and lucrative approaches in electronic structure calculations of many-electron systems in past four decades. Here we give an account of the development of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

We simulate the electron transport across the Au(111)-pentacene interface using non-equilibrium Green's functions and density-functional theory (NEGF-DFT), and calculate the bias-dependent electron transmission. We find that the electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-13 Kurt Stokbro , Søren Smidstrup

We present quantum electron transport theory that incorporates dynamical effects of motion of atoms on electrode-molecule interfaces in the calculations of the electric current. The theory is based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

In this thesis, I investigate the molecular electronic properties of molecular junctions formed from single molecules. I started my thesis by discusses the main theoretical methods using in this work density functional theory and the green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Eman Nader Almutib

We study the electronic and structural properties of the low-temperature ordered phase of hydrogen-bonded molecular conductors, $\kappa$-D$_3$(Cat-EDT-TTF)$_2$ and its selenium-substituted analog $\kappa$-D$_3$(Cat-EDT-ST)$_2$, by means of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-17 Takao Tsumuraya , Hitoshi Seo , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

The Liouville-space Green function formalism is used to compute the current density profile across a single molecule attached to electrodes. Time ordering is maintained in real, physical, time, avoiding the use of artificial time loops and…

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Perdew et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 49, 1691 (1982)] discovered and proved two different properties of exact Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT): (i) The exact total energy versus particle number is a series of linear segments between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Tamar Stein , Jochen Autschbach , Niranjan Govind , Leeor Kronik , Roi Baer

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of charged molecules and surfaces are critical to applications in electro-catalysis, energy materials and related fields of materials science. DFT implementations such as the Vienna ab-initio…

We investigate charge transport in pentacene-graphene nanojunctions employing density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations and the Landauer transport formalism. The results show that the unique electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Ivan A. Pshenichnyuk , Pedro B. Coto , Susanne Leitherer , Michael Thoss

While density functional theory (DFT) is widely applied for its combination of cost and accuracy, corrections (e.g., DFT+U) that improve it are often needed to tackle correlated transition-metal chemistry. In principle, the functional form…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik

The transport properties of a octane-dithiol (ODT) molecule coupled to Au(001) leads are analyzed using density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green functions. It is shown that a symmetric molecule can turn into a diode under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Tomasz Kostyrko , Víctor M. García-Suárez , Colin J. Lambert , Bogdan R. Bułka

While the Landauer viewpoint constitutes a modern basis to understand nanoscale electronic transport and to realize first-principles implementations of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, seeking an alternative picture…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Juho Lee , Han Seul Kim , Yong-Hoon Kim