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We consider optical spectroscopy of molecular junctions from the quantum transport perspective when radiation field is quantized and optical response of the system is simulated as photon flux. Using exact expressions for photon and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Yi Gao , Michael Galperin

In this work we present a simulation of the semiconductor electrodes of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting cells based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. While the performance of simple PEC cells can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Lassi Hällström , Ilkka Tittonen

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 photovoltaic characteristics of an ultra-thin GaAs solar cell with gold back reflector are simulated using the standard semi-classical drift-diffusion-Poisson model and an advanced microscopic quantum-kinetic approach based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 Urs Aeberhard

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

Designing nanoscale electronic devices such as the currently manufactured nanoribbon field-effect transistors (NRFETs) requires advanced modeling tools capturing all relevant quantum mechanical effects. State-of-the-art approaches combine…

Nonequilibrium Green's function methods allow for an intrinsically consistent description of the evolution of quantal many-body body systems, with inclusion of different types of correlations. In this paper, we focus on the practical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Arnau Rios , Brent Barker , Mark Buchler , Pawel Danielewicz

In this work, we propose an efficient computational scheme for first-principle quantum transport simulations to evaluate the open-boundary conditions. Its partitioning differentiates from conventional methods in that the contact self-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-01 Guido Gandus , Youseung Lee , Daniele Passerone , Mathieu Luisier

The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method is often used to predict transport in atomistically resolved nanodevices and yields an immense numerical load when inelastic scattering on phonons is included. To ease this load, this work…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Daniel A. Lemus , James Charles , Tillmann Kubis

Widely employed Near-Edge X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy probes a system by excitation of core electrons to unoccupied states. A variety of different methodologies are available to simulate corresponding spectra from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Georg S. Michelitsch , Karsten Reuter

A review of electronic dynamics of single-impurity and many-impurity Anderson models is contained in this report. Those models are used widely for many of the applications in diverse fields of interest, such as surface physics, theory of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-04 A. L. Kuzemsky

The quantum Hall effect in Graphene nano-ribbons (GNR) is investigated with the non-equilibrium Green s function (NEGF) based quantum transport model in the ballistic regime. The nearest neighbor tight-binding model based on pz orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 Roksana Golizadeh-Mojarad , A. N. M. Zainuddin , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta

We study quantum entanglement and its relation to transport in a non-equilibrium interacting double dot system connected to electronic baths. The dynamical properties in the non-interacting regime are studied using an exact numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Anirban Dey , Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Auditya Sharma

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

In the framework of the quantum theory of many-particle systems, we study the compatibility of approximated Non-Equilibrium Green Functions (NEGFs) and of approximated solutions of the Dyson equation with a modified continuity equation of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 F. Minotti , G. Modanese

Sub-barrier photo-induced fission in $^{236}$U$(\gamma,f)$ is investigated within the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method. A model space for the fission process is constructed by superposing Skyrme-Hartree-Fock wave functions along…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 K. Uzawa

Kinetic equations governing time evolution of positions and momenta of atoms in extended systems are derived using quantum-classical ensembles within the Non-Equilibrium Statistical Operator Method (NESOM). Ions are treated classically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu Wang , Lev Kantorovich

The dynamics of strongly correlated fermions following an external excitation reveals extremely rich collective quantum effects. Examples are fermionic atoms in optical lattices, electrons in correlated materials, and dense quantum plasmas.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-26 Niclas Schluenzen , Jan-Philip Joost , Michael Bonitz

Nonequilibrium Green's functions represent underutilized means of studying the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. In view of a rising computer power, an effort is underway to apply the Green's functions formalism to the dynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Arnau Rios , Pawel Danielewicz

Nonequilibrium Greens function techniques (NEGF) combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become a standard tool for the description of electron transport through single molecule nanojunctions in the coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Victor Geskin , Robert Stadler , Jérôme Cornil