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Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule…

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We analyze non-equilibrium current transport in molecular electronic devices, using as an example devices formed by two terphenyl dithiol molecules attached to gold electrodes. Using a first-principles based self-consistent matrix Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yongqiang Xue , Mark A. Ratner

We study the influence of spin on the quantum interference of interacting electrons in a single-channel disordered quantum wire within the framework of the Luttinger liquid (LL) model. The nature of the electron interference in a spinful LL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-08 A. G. Yashenkin , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov

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

The quantum interference and orbital filling effects on the thermoelectric (TE) properties of quantum dot molecules with high figure of merit are illustrated via the full solution to the Hubbard- Anderson model in the Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Chih-Chieh Chen , David M T Kuo , Yia Chung Chang

We present full quantum mechanical conductance calculations of a quantum point contact (QPC) performed in the framework of the density functional theory (DFT) in the local spin-density approximation (LDA). We show that a spin-degeneracy of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

Constrained density functional theory (CDFT) is used to evaluate the energy level alignment of a benzene molecule as it approaches a graphene sheet. Within CDFT the problem is conveniently mapped onto evaluating total energy differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Subhayan Roychoudhury , Carlo Motta , Stefano Sanvito

Quantum transport on structured networks is strongly influenced by interference effects, which can dramatically modify how information propagates through a system. We develop a quantum-information-theoretic framework for scattering on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Giuseppe Catalano , Farzad Kianvash , Vittorio Giovannetti

We perform a phase-space analysis of strong-field enhanced ionisation in molecules, with emphasis on quantum-interference effects. Using Wigner quasi-probability distributions and the quantum Liouville equation, we show that the momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 H. Chomet , D. Sarkar , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

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

Numerous experimental and theoretical studies have focused on low-dimensional systems locally perturbed by the biased tip of a scanning force microscope. In all cases either open or closed weakly gate-tunable nanostructures have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 A. A. Kozikov , D. Weinmann , C. Rossler , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider

Lattice degrees of freedom (DoFs) may induce quantum disorder (QD) when nuclear tunneling outvies long-range order, but conventional phonon theory is incapable of describing such QD phases. Here we develop a method based on path-integral…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-05 Yu-Cheng Zhu , Jia-Xi Zeng , Qi-Jun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

Quantum transport properties through some multilevel quantum dots sandwiched between two metallic contacts are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. Here we do parametric calculations, based on the tight-binding model, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

An analytic approach to the electron transport phenomena in molecular devices is presented. Analyzed devices are composed of organic molecules attached to the two semi-infinite electrodes. Molecular system is described within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

We explore electron transport properties for the model of benzene-1, 4-dithiolate (BDT) molecule and for some other geometric models of benzene molecule attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes using the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Santanu K. Maiti

We present an atomistic quantum transport simulation framework based on the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism to model impact ionization in semiconductor avalanche devices, with direct relevance to near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Burdine , Nischal Binod Gautam , Enrique P. Blair

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method combined with ab initio calculations has been widely used to study charge transport in molecular junctions. However, the significant computational demands of high-resolution calculations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xuan Ji , Qiang Qi , Yueqi Chen , Chen Zhou , Xi Yu

Destructive quantum interference in single molecule electronics is an intriguing phe- nomenon; however, distinguishing quantum interference effects from generically low transmission is not trivial. In this paper, we discuss how quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Jacob Lykkebo , Alessio Gagliardi , Alessandro Pecchia , Gemma C. Solomon

We study the quantum interference (QI) effects in three-terminal Andreev interferometers based on polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's) under non-equilibrium conditions. The Andreev interferometer consists of a PAH coupled to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Noel L. Plaszkó , Peter Rakyta , József Cserti , Andor Kormányos , Colin J. Lambert

The application of in-plane magnetic fields to Josephson junctions enables fundamental exploration of quantum phenomena, including Zeeman-driven 0-$\pi$ transitions and planar topological superconductivity. However, intrinsic orbital…