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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…

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Stationary electric transport in semiconductor nanostructures is studied by the method of nonequilibrium Green functions. In the case of sequential tunneling the results are compared with density matrix theory, providing almost identical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Andreas Wacker

We present a combined theoretical approach to study the nonequilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes and exhibiting strong electron-phonon interactions. We use the Keldysh Green function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Monreal , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

Non-equilibrium Green's function theory for non-adiabatic effects in quantum transport [Kershaw and Kosov, J.Chem. Phys. 2017, 147, 224109 and J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 044121] is extended to the case of interacting electrons. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two kinds of electron-vibron interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

Transport in molecular electronic devices is different from that in semiconductor mesoscopic devices in two important aspects: (1) the effect of the electronic structure and (2) the effect of the interface to the external contact. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yongqiang Xue , Supriyo Datta , Mark A. Ratner

Computationally inexpensive approximations describing electron-phonon scattering in molecular-scale conductors are derived from the non-equilibrium Green's function method. The accuracy is demonstrated with a first principles calculation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Magnus Paulsson , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

We present an ongoing development of an existing code for calculating ground-state, steady-state, and transient properties of many-particle systems. The development involves the addition of the full four-index two electron integrals, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Richard A. Lynn , Robert van Leeuwen

Electron transport characteristics are investigated through some molecular chains attached to two non-superconducting electrodes by the use of Green's function method. Here we do parametric calculations based on the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-31 Santanu K. Maiti

We study the electronic and transport properties of heterostructures formed by armchair graphene nanoribbons with intersections of finite length. We describe the system by a tight-binding model and calculate the density of states and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-19 L. Rosales , P. Orellana , Z. Barticevic , M. Pacheco

We study the nonlinear elastic quantum electronic transport properties of nanoscopic devices using the Nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Green's function method allows us to expand the $I-V$ characteristics of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We describe a first-principles method for calculating electronic structure, vibrational modes and frequencies, electron-phonon couplings, and inelastic electron transport properties of an atomic-scale device bridging two metallic contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Frederiksen , Magnus Paulsson , Mads Brandbyge , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The non-equilibrium quantum field dynamics is usually described in the closed-time-path formalism. The initial state correlations are introduced into the generating functional by non-local source terms. We propose a functional approach to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Q. Wang , K. Redlich , H. Stöcker , W. Greiner

The performance potential for simulating quantum electron transport on graphical processing units (GPUs) is studied. Using graphene ribbons of realistic sizes as an example it is shown that GPUs provide significant speed-ups in comparison…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 S. Ihnatsenka

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou

We derive a general expression for the electron nonequilibrium (NE) distribution function in the context of steady state quantum transport through a two-terminal nanodevice with interaction. The central idea for the use of NE distributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 H. Ness

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based full ab initio description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schnurpfeil , Bo Song , Martin Albrecht

We introduce diagrammatic technique for Hubbard nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The formulation is an extension of equilibrium considerations for strongly correlated lattice models to description of current carrying molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Feng Chen , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin