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In the last twenty years there has been significant progress in our understanding of quantum transport far from equilibrium and a conceptual framework has emerged through a combination of the Landauer approach with the non-equilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-01 Supriyo Datta

A formalism for incorporating electron-phonon scattering into the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework that is applicable to planar MOSFETs is presented. Restructuring the NEGF equations in terms of approximate summation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Himadri S. Pal , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Raseong Kim , Mark S. Lundstrom

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

One of the challenges in diagrammatic simulations of nonequilibrium phenomena in lattice models is the large memory demand for storing momentum-dependent two-time correlation functions. This problem can be overcome with the recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-23 Maksymilian Środa , Ken Inayoshi , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Philipp Werner

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

Based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) coupled with density function theory (DFT), namely, NEGF-DFT quantum transport theory, we propose an efficient formalism to calculate the transient current of molecular devices under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Zhang , J. Chen , J. Wang

The electric conductance of a molecular junction is calculated by recasting the Keldysh formalism in Liouville space. Dyson equations for nonequilibrium many body Green's functions (NEGF) are derived directly in real (physical) time. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Harbola , S. Mukamel

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

To describe non-equilibrium transport processes in a quantum device with infinite baths, we propose to formulate the problems as a reduced-order problem. Starting with the Liouville-von Neumann equation for the density-matrix, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 Weiqi Chu , Xiantao Li

We study non-equilibrium electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to metallic leads. We use an alternative equation of motion approach in which we calculate the retarded Green function of the impurity by differentiating Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Grzegorz Górski , Jerzy Mizia , Krzysztof Kucab

Quantum transport through single molecules is very sensitive to the strength of the molecule-electrode contact. Here, we investigate the behavior of a model molecular junction weakly coupled to external electrodes in the case where charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bo Song , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

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

We have modeled transport properties of nanostructures using the Green's function method within the framework of the density-functional theory. The scheme is computationally demanding so that numerical methods have to be chosen carefully. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti J. Puska , Mikko H. Hakala , Adam S. Foster , Risto M. Nieminen

Building on the many existing algorithms for calculating the DC transport properties of quantum tight-binding models, we develop a systematic approach that expresses finite frequency observables in terms of the stationary Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Oleksii Shevtsov , Xavier Waintal

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a one-dimensional complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain by directly solving for the steady state Green's functions in terms of small perturbations around their equilibrium values. The model exhibits…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Cristian Zanoci , Brian Swingle

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

We propose a simple scheme that describes accurately essential non-equilibrium effects in nanoscale electronics devices using equilibrium transport theory. The scheme, which is based on the alignment and dealignment of the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 V. M. García-Suárez , J. Ferrer

The accurate simulation of real--time quantum transport is notoriously difficult, requiring a consistent scheme to treat incoming and outgoing fluxes at the boundary of an open system. We demonstrate a method to converge non--equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Justin E. Elenewski , Yanxiang Zhao , Hanning Chen

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the framework of the nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

The need to reason about uncertainty in large, complex, and multi-modal datasets has become increasingly common across modern scientific environments. The ability to transform samples from one distribution $P$ to another distribution $Q$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Diego A. Mesa , Justin Tantiongloc , Marcela Mendoza , Todd P. Coleman