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The simulation of quantum transport in nanodevices requires the solution of the Dyson and Keldysh equations, a task dominated by the inversion of massive, block-tridiagonal matrices. While the Recursive Green's Function (RGF) method has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Edoardo Di Napoli , Alessandro Pecchia , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo

The renormalization-decimation algorithm (RDA) of L\'opez Sancho et al. is used in quantum transport theory to calculate bulk and surface Green's functions. We derive an improved version of the RDA for the case of very long quasi…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

The single-particle Green's function (GF) of mesoscopic structures plays a central role in mesoscopic quantum transport. The recursive GF technique is a standard tool to compute this quantity numerically, but it lacks physical transparency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

We derive a method to efficiently compute the Green function of on arbitrary Hamiltonians defined on semi-infinite and periodic quasi-one-dimensional lattices. Computing the Green function is the backbone of quantum transport, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Pablo San-Jose

The Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a particularly powerful method to simulate the quantum transport properties of nanoscale devices such as transistors, photo-diodes, or memory cells, in the ballistic limit of…

We describe how to apply the recursive Green's function method to the computation of electronic transport properties of graphene sheets and nanoribbons in the linear response regime. This method allows for an amenable inclusion of several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

The Green's function method is recognized to be a very powerful tool for modelling quantum transport in nanoscale electronic devices. As atomistic calculations are generally expensive, numerical methods and related algorithms have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We propose a general framework for computing Retarded Green's Functions (RGFs) on quantum computers by recasting their evaluation as a problem of circuit differentiation. Our proposal is based on real-time evolution and specifically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Samuele Piccinelli , Francesco Tacchino , Ivano Tavernelli , Giuseppe Carleo

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

We present and review an efficient method to calculate the retarded Green's function in multi-terminal nanostructures; which is needed in order to calculate the conductance through the system and the local particle densities within it. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Thorgilsson , G. Viktorsson , S. I. Erlingsson

We report a linear-scaling random Green's function (rGF) method for large-scale electronic structure calculation. In this method, the rGF is defined on a set of random states to stochastically express the density matrix, and rGF is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Mingfa Tang , Chang Liu , Aixia Zhang , Qingyun Zhang , Shengjun Yuan , Youqi Ke

In this work, the low rank approximation concept is extended to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to achieve a very efficient approximated algorithm for coherent and incoherent electron transport. This new method is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lang Zeng , Yu He , Michael Povolotsky , XiaoYan Liu , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

Through the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism, quantum-scale device simulation can be performed with the inclusion of electron-phonon scattering. However, the simulation of realistically sized devices under the NEGF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Stephen Cauley , Mathieu Luisier , Venkataramanan Balakrishnan , Gerhard Klimeck , Cheng-Kok Koh

A new approximate computational framework is proposed for computing the non-equilibrium charge density in the context of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method for quantum mechanical transport problems. The framework consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Quan Chen , Jun Li , Chiyung Yam , Yu Zhang , Ngai Wong , Guanhua Chen

An efficient and compact approach to the inclusion of dissipative effects in Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulations of electronic systems is introduced. The algorithm is based on two well known methods in the literature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Jesse A. Vaitkus , Jared H. Cole

The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach offers a practical framework for simulating various phenomena in mesoscopic systems. As the dimension of electronic devices shrinks to just a few nanometers, the need for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Wenjie Dou

We aim to provide engineers with an introduction to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach, which provides a powerful conceptual tool and a practical analysis method to treat small electronic devices quantum mechanically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Anantram , M. S. Lundstrom , D. E. Nikonov

Study on the electronic transport of a large scale two dimensional system by the transfer matrix method (TMM) based on the Sch\"{o}rdinger equation suffers from the numerical instability. To address this problem, we propose a renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Miao Gao , Gui-Ping Zhang , Zhong-Yi Lu

We present an efficient numerical approach for treating ballistic quantum transport across devices described by tight binding (TB) Hamiltonians designated to systems with localized potential defects. The method is based on the wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Kolasiński , A. Mreńca-Kolasińska , B. Szafran
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