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Nonperturbative dynamic theory has a particular advantage in studying the transport in a quantum impurity system in a steady state. Here, we develop a new approach for obtaining the retarded Green's function expressed in resolvent form. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Jongbae Hong

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

Real-time Green's function simulations of molecular junctions (open quantum systems) are typically performed by solving the Kadanoff-Baym equations (KBE). The KBE, however, impose a serious limitation on the maximum propagation time due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Latini , E. Perfetto , A. -M. Uimonen , R. van Leeuwen , G. Stefanucci

We study inelastic electron tunneling through a molecular junction using the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. The effect of the mutual influence between the phonon and the electron subsystems on the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

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 have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong

In a time-orbiting-potential magnetic trap the neutral atoms are confined by means of an inhomogeneous magnetic field superimposed to an uniform rotating one. We perform an analytic study of the atomic motion by taking into account the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Franzosi , Andrea Spinelli , Bruno Zambon , Ennio Arimondo

With recent developments in spintronics, it is now possible to envision spin-driven devices with magnets and interconnects that require a new class of transport models using generalized Fermi functions and currents, each with four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Kerem Y. Camsari , Samiran Ganguly , Deepanjan Datta , Supriyo Datta

We present an approach for carrying out non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations of systems in which non-adiabatic transitions arise from the coupling between the classical atomic motions and a quasi-continuum of electronic quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Jerome Daligault , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Molecules in molecular junctions are subject to current-induced forces that can break chemical bonds, induce reactions, destabilize molecular geometry, and halt the operation of the junction. Theories behind current-driven molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Riley J. Preston , Thomas D. Honeychurch , Daniel S. Kosov

We perform a perturbative analysis for the nonequilibrium Green functions of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model in the presence of an arbitrary external time-dependent but spatially uniform electric field. The conduction electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Turkowski , J. K. Freericks

A self-consistent method for calculating electron transport through a molecular device is proposed. It is based on density functional theory electronic structure calculations under periodic boundary conditions and implemented in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

An open quantum system consists of leads connected to a device of interest. Within the nonequilibrium Green's function technique, we examine the replacement of leads by self-energies in continuum calculations. Our starting point is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fredrick Michael , M. D. Johnson

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

We provide a systematic approach to compute different kinds of non-equilibrium Green's functions for open quantum systems which are essentially two-point correlation functions in time. We reveal that the definition of Green's functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-08 Katha Ganguly , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

We consider a projection operator approach to the non-equilbrium Green function equation-of-motion (PO-NEGF EOM) method. The technique resolves problems of arbitrariness in truncation of an infinite chain of EOMs, and prevents violation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner

We present a time-linear scaling method to simulate open and correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium. The method inherits from many-body perturbation theory the possibility to choose selectively the most relevant scattering processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 R. Tuovinen , Y. Pavlyukh , E. Perfetto , G. Stefanucci

The pair distribution function (PDF) is a key quantity for the analysis of correlation effects of a quantum system both in equilibrium and far from equilibrium. We derive an expression for the PDF in terms of the single-particle Green's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-19 M. Bonitz , S. Hermanns , K. Kobusch , K. Balzer

A many-body theory of molecular junction transport based on nonequilibrium Green's functions is developed, which treats coherent quantum effects and Coulomb interactions on an equal footing. The central quantity of the many-body theory is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-07 J. P. Bergfield , C. A. Stafford

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