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A self-consistent method for calculating electron transport through a molecular device is proposed. It is based on density functional theory electronic structure calculations under periodic boundary conditions and implemented in the…

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We give nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) perspective on thermodynamics formulations for open quantum systems strongly coupled to baths. Scattering approach implying thermodynamic consideration of a super-system (system plus baths)…

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Non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) formalism combined with extended Huckel (EHT) and charging model are used to study electrical conduction through single-molecule junctions. Analyzed molecular complex is composed of asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kamil Walczak , Sergey Edward Lyshevski

Driven by Moore's Law, the dimensions of transistors have been pushed down to the nanometer scale. Advanced quantum transport (QT) solvers are required to accurately simulate such nano-devices. The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Vincent Maillou , Matthias Bollhofer , Olaf Schenk , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Mathieu Luisier

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

Nonequilibrium Green's functions provide a powerful tool for computing the dynamical response and particle exchange statistics of coupled quantum systems. We formulate the theory in terms of the density matrix in Liouville space and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 U. Harbola , S. Mukamel

We review various numerical approaches to compute transport coefficients in molecular dynamics. These approaches can be broadly classified into three groups: (i) nonequilibrium methods based on applying an external driving field to the…

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yukuan Hu , Huajie Chen , Xin Liu

The Wave Function Matching (WFM) technique has recently been developed for the calculation of electronic transport in quantum two-probe systems. In terms of efficiency it is comparable with the widely used Green's function approach. The WFM…

We have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong

We present a theoretical approach to optical spectroscopy of open nonequilibrium systems, which generalizes traditional nonlinear optical spectroscopy tools by imposing charge and energy conservation at all levels of approximation. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Shaul Mukamel , Michael Galperin

We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport, and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite electrodes and with an applied voltage bias. Our method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Mads Brandbyge , Jose-Luis Mozos , Pablo Ordejon , Jeremy Taylor , Kurt Stokbro

Based on density functional theory (DFT), we have developed algorithms and a program code to investigate the electron transport characteristics for a variety of nanometer scaled devices in the presence of an external bias voltage. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-14 Woo Youn Kim , Kwang S. Kim

This work describes a novel simulation approach that combines machine learning and device modelling simulations. The device simulations are based on the quantum mechanical non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) approach and the machine…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Preslav Aleksandrov , Ali Rezaei , Nikolas Xeni , Tapas Dutta , Asen Asenov , Vihar Georgiev

The Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method was established in the 1960's through the classic work of Schwinger, Kadanoff, Baym, Keldysh and others using many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and the diagrammatic theory for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Kerem Y. Camsari , Shuvro Chowdhury , Supriyo Datta

Transport properties of molecular junctions are notoriously expensive to calculate with ab initio methods, primarily due to the semi-infinite electrodes. This has led to the introduction of different approximation schemes for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 C. J. O. Verzijl , J. S. Seldenthuis , J. M. Thijssen

We present a method which uses density functional theory (DFT) to treat transport through a single molecule connected to two conducting leads for the weak and intermediate coupling. This case is not accessible to standard non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Fatemeh Mirjani , Joseph M. Thijssen

Density functional theory (DFT) combined with non-equilibrium Greens functions (NEGF) is a powerful approach to model quantum transport under external bias potentials, at reasonable computational cost. In this work we present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Christian S. Ahart , Sergey Chulkov , Clotilde S. Cucinotta

Inelastic effects in electron transport through nano-sized devices are addressed with a method based on nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) and perturbation theory to infinite order in the electron-vibration coupling. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge , Nicolas Lorente , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Molecular dynamics simulations are indispensable for exploring the behavior of atoms and molecules. Grounded in quantum mechanical principles, quantum molecular dynamics provides high predictive power but its computational cost is dominated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor