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A systematic truncation of the many-body Hilbert space is implemented to study how electrons in a quantum dot attached to conducting leads respond to time-dependent biases. The method, which we call the dynamical 1/N approach, is first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Merino , J. B. Marston

A recent experiment reports a non-local spin-signal that shows oscillatory behavior as a function of gate voltage when the contacts are magnetized along the direction of current flow, but not when they are magnetized perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 A. N. M. Zainuddin , S. Hong , L. Siddiqui , S. Datta

The spin-dependent transport of the electrons tunneling through a resonant tunneling structure with ferromagnetic multi-terminal under dc and ac fields is explored by means of the nonequilibrium Green function technique. A general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng , Biao Jin

We theoretically investigate the time-dependent ballistic transport in metallic graphene nanoribbons after the sudden switch-on of a bias voltage $V$. The ribbon is divided in three different regions, namely two semi-infinite graphenic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Perfetto , G. Stefanucci , M. Cini

We investigate transport properties of molecular junctions under two types of bias--a short time pulse or an AC bias--by combining a solution for the Green functions in the time domain with electronic structure information coming from ab…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-18 San-Huang Ke , Rui Liu , Weitao Yang , Harold U. Baranger

The response of a quantum dot coupled with one normal lead and a superconductor lead driven by a step-like pulse bias $V_L$ is studied using the non-equilibrium Green function method. In the linear pulse bias regime, the responses of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We consider a mesoscopic region coupled to two leads under the influence of external time-dependent voltages. The time dependence is coupled to source and drain contacts, the gates controlling the tunnel- barrier heights, or to the gates…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Antti-Pekka Jauho , Ned S. Wingreen , Yigal Meir

We study the time evolution and steady state of the charge current in a single-impurity Anderson model, using matrix product states techniques. A nonequilibrium situation is imposed by applying a bias voltage across one-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-31 Martin Nuss , Martin Ganahl , Hans Gerd Evertz , Enrico Arrigoni , Wolfgang von der Linden

We present a solution to the problem of AC current partition in a multi-probe mesoscopic conductor within the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. This allows the derivation of dynamic conductance which is appropriate for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We analyze the time-evolution of a quantum dot which is proximized by a large-gap superconductor and weakly probed using the charge and heat currents into a wide-band metal electrode. We map out the full time dependence of these currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Lara C. Ortmanns , Janine Splettstoesser , Maarten R. Wegewijs

Based on exactly mapping of a many-body electron-phonon interaction problem onto a one-body problem, we apply the well-established nonequilibrium Green function technique to solve the time-dependent phonon-assisted tunneling at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

We present a theoretical study of time-dependent quantum transport in a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. An arbitrary voltage is applied to the tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Tahir , A. MacKinnon

We present a generalized dynamical mean-field approach for the nonequilibrium physics of a strongly correlated system in the presence of a time-dependent external field. The Keldysh Green's function formalism is used to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Schmidt , H. Monien

Based on two-time observation protocol, we consider heat transfer in a given time interval $t_{M}$ in lead-junction-lead system taking coupling between the leads into account. In view of the two-time observation, consistency conditions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Huanan Li , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Sheng Wang

For the study of molecular spin junctions, we take into account two types of couplings between the molecule and the metal leads: (i) electron transfer that gives rise to net current in the biased junction and (ii) energy transfer between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 M. Jouravlev , Kwang S. Kim

The ac Josephson effect in hybrid systems of a normal mesoscopic conductor coupled to two superconducting (S) leads is investigated theoretically. A general formula of the ac components of time-dependent current is derived which is valid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo , Jian Wang

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

We describe the numerical modeling of current flow in graphene heterojunctions, within the Keldysh Landauer Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. By implementing a $k$-space approach along the transverse modes, coupled with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Redwan N. Sajjad , Carlos Polanco , Avik W. Ghosh

We study the electronic current through a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads which is driven by either a voltage $V$ or temperature $\Delta T$ bias. Finite biases beyond the linear response regime are considered. The local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Jan F. Rentrop , Severin G. Jakobs , Volker Meden

Real-time nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of electrons in double-dot Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers is studied using an exact solution of the master equation. The building of the coherence between the two electronic paths shows up via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , Jinshuang Jin , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony