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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of the driven resonant level model is studied using numerical simulations based on the driven Liouville von-Neumann formalism. The approach is first validated against recently obtained analytical results for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Annabelle Oz , Oded Hod , Abraham Nitzan

Two-terminal spintronic devices remain challenging to model under realistic operating conditions, where the interplay of complex electronic structures, correlation effects and bias-driven non-equilibrium dynamics may significantly impact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Declan Nell , Milos Radonjic , Ivan Rungger , Liviu Chioncel , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

A simplified transient energy-transport system for semiconductors subject to mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. The model is formally derived from the non-isothermal hydrodynamic equations in a particular vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Ansgar Jüngel , René Pinnau , Elisa Röhrig

An accurate expression of the kinetic energy density of an electronic distribution in terms of the single particle reduced density matrix for atomic and molecular systems is a long-standing problem in electron structure theory. Existing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Priya , Mainak Sadhukhan

Electronic structure calculation of atoms and molecules, in the past few decades has largely been dominated by density functional methods. This is primarily due to the fact that this can account for electron correlation effects in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Amlan K. Roy

Quantum transport through single molecules is very sensitive to the strength of the molecule-electrode contact. When a molecular junction weakly coupled to external electrodes, charging effects do play an important role (Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-03 Bo Song

We show that the time dependent single electron, nuclear density matrix of an interacting electronic system coupled to nuclear degrees of freedom can be exactly reproduced by that of an electronic system with arbitrarily specified…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-07 Vinod Krishna

Accurate prediction of electron transport coefficients is crucial for understanding warm dense matter. Utilizing the density functional theory (DFT) with the Kubo-Greenwood formula is widely used to evaluate the electrical and thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-27 Qianrui Liu , Mohan Chen

We explore electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs We trace the transition from the Coulomb blockade regime to Kondo regime in the electron transport through the dot occuring when we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-24 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We present a generalized approach for computing electron conductance and I-V characteristics in multiterminal junctions from first-principles. Within the framework of Keldysh theory, electron transmission is evaluated employing an O(N)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

The time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation and the Boltzmann transport equation for one-dimensional charge-density-wave (CDW) conductors are derived from a microscopic model by applying the Keldysh Green's function approach under a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Yositake Takane , Masahiko Hayashi , Hiromichi Ebisawa

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hanh D. M. Pham , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

Optical conductivity in molecular semiconductors is suppressed in the terahertz region, featuring the displaced Drude peak that reflects carriers' transient localization (TL) by slow intermolecular vibrations. Meanwhile, recent computations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Veljko Janković

We present an effective medium theory based on density functional theory that is implemented in VASP using the PAW method with a plane wave basis set. The transmission coefficient is derived through three complementary approaches: the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yi-Cheng Lin , Ken-Ming Lin , Yu-Chang Chen

We present here novel insight into exchange-correlation functionals in density functional theory, based on the viewpoint of optimal transport. We show that in the case of two electrons and in the semiclassical limit, the exact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Codina Cotar , Gero Friesecke , Claudia Klüppelberg

Based on dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) we consider a non-equilibrium system of interacting colloidal particles driven by a constant tilting force through a periodic, symmetric "washboard" potential. We demonstrate that, despite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Ken Lichtner , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The time-dependent transport through a nano-scale device, consisting of a single spin-degenerate orbital with on-site Coulomb interaction, coupled to two leads, is investigated. Various gate and bias voltage time-dependences are considered.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 V. Vovchenko , D. Anchishkin , J. Azema , P. Lombardo , R. Hayn , A. -M. Daré

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

The Liouville-Lanczos approach to linear-response time-dependent density-functional theory is generalized so as to encompass electron energy-loss and inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopies in periodic solids. The computation of virtual…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Iurii Timrov , Nathalie Vast , Ralph Gebauer , Stefano Baroni

We theoretically investigate an electric-field-driven system of charged spheres as a primitive model of concentrated electrolytes under an applied electric field. First, we provide a unified formulation for the stochastic charge and density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-15 Hiroshi Frusawa