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We initiate the study of open quantum field theories using holographic methods. Specifically, we consider a quantum field theory (the system) coupled to a holographic field theory at finite temperature (the environment). We investigate the…

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We study the long time dynamics of quantum spin glasses of rotors using the non-equilibrium Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. These models are known to have a quantum phase transition from a paramagnetic to a spin glass phase, which we approach…

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We introduce a method to evaluate the steady-state non-equilibrium Keldysh-Schwinger Green's functions for infinite systems subject to both an electric field and a coupling to reservoirs. The method we present exploits a physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Christian Klöckner , Dante Marvin Kennes , Christoph Karrasch

The Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method was established in the 1960's through the classic work of Schwinger, Kadanoff, Baym, Keldysh and others using many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and the diagrammatic theory for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Kerem Y. Camsari , Shuvro Chowdhury , Supriyo Datta

The nonequilibrium description of quantum systems requires, for more than two or three particles, the use of a reduced description to be numerically tractable. Two possible approaches are based on either reduced density matrices or…

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

The electric conductance of a molecular junction is calculated by recasting the Keldysh formalism in Liouville space. Dyson equations for nonequilibrium many body Green's functions (NEGF) are derived directly in real (physical) time. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Harbola , S. Mukamel

We propose a description of nonequilibrium systems via a simple protocol that combines exchange-correlation potentials from density functional theory with self-energies of many-body perturbation theory. The approach, aimed to avoid double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 M. Hopjan , D. Karlsson , S. Ydman , C. Verdozzi , C. -O. Almbladh

We formulate a new ``Wigner characteristics'' based method to calculate entanglement entropies of subsystems of Fermions using Keldysh field theory. This bypasses the requirements of working with complicated manifolds for calculating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

Modeling many-body quantum systems with strong interactions is one of the core challenges of modern physics. A range of methods has been developed to approach this task, each with its own idiosyncrasies, approximations, and realm of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Brett Larder , Dirk Gericke , Scott Richardson , Paul Mabey , Thomas White , Gianluca Gregori

The theoretical description of strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium presents several challenges and a number of open questions persist. In this paper we focus on nonlinear electronic transport through an interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Prasenjit Dutt , Jens Koch , J. E. Han , Karyn Le Hur

We employ the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism to study the nonequilibrium dynamics of the mirror with perfect reflection moving in a quantum field. Within the regime of linear response in terms of a first order expansion of the mirror's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chun-Hsien Wu , Da-Shin Lee

The self-energy functional theory (SFT) is generalized to describe the real-time dynamics of correlated lattice-fermion models far from thermal equilibrium. This is achieved by means of a reformulation of the original equilibrium theory in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-21 Felix Hofmann , Martin Eckstein , Enrico Arrigoni , Michael Potthoff

We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Within this formalism, one can treat, on the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 M. Ridley , N. W. Talarico , D. Karlsson , N. Lo Gullo , R. Tuovinen

The non-equilibrium Green's function formalism for infinitely extended reservoirs coupled to a finite system can be derived by solving the equations of motion for a tight-binding Hamiltonian. While this approach gives the correct density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhishek Dhar , Diptiman Sen

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems is investigated within the framework of thermal time-dependent density functional theory using a generalized linear-response formulation for the full quantum work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Antonio Palamara , Francesco Plastina , Antonello Sindona , Irene D'Amico

The method of many-body Green's functions is developed for arbitrary systems of electrons and nuclei starting from the full (beyond Born-Oppenheimer) Hamiltonian of Coulomb interactions and kinetic energies. The theory presented here…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-23 Ville J. Härkönen , Robert van Leeuwen , E. K. U. Gross

Understanding the non-equilibrium behavior of quantum systems is a major goal of contemporary physics. Much research is currently focused on the dynamics of many-body systems in low-dimensional lattices following a quench, i.e., a sudden…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-29 Dominic Gribben , Igor Lesanovsky , Ricardo Gutierrez

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

The aim of the article is to discuss the S-matrix interpretation of perturbation theory for the Wigner functions generating functional at a finite temperature. For sake of definiteness, fruitful from pedagogical point of view, the concrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Manjavidze

The theoretical description of materials' properties driven out of equilibrium has important consequences in various fields such as semiconductor spintronics, nonlinear optics, continuous and discrete quantum information science and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Jacopo Simoni , Gabriele Riva , Yuan Ping