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With the technical progress of radio-frequency setups, high frequency quantum transport experiments have moved from theory to the lab. So far the standard theoretical approach used to treat such problems numerically--known as Keldysh or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Benoit Gaury , Joseph Weston , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

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

Since proposed in the 70s, the Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method has been recognized as a standard approach to quantum transport simulations. Although it achieves superiority in simulation accuracy, the tremendous computational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yingzhanghao Zhou , Xiang Chen , Peng Zhang , Jun Wang , Lei Wang , Hong Guo

The use of ensemble Monte Carlo (EMC) methods for the simulation of transport in semiconductor devices has become extensive over the past few decades. This method allows for simulation utilizing particles while addressing the full physics…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-04 David K. Ferry

Atomistic quantum transport simulation of realistically large devices is computationally very demanding. The widely used mode space (MS) approach can significantly reduce the numerical cost but good MS basis is usually very hard to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jun Z. Huang , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Michael Povolotskyi , Gerhard Klimeck

This review is devoted to the different techniques that have been developed to compute the phase-coherent transport properties of quantum nanoelectronic systems connected to electrodes. Beside a review of the different algorithms proposed…

Based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) coupled with density function theory (DFT), namely, NEGF-DFT quantum transport theory, we propose an efficient formalism to calculate the transient current of molecular devices under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Zhang , J. Chen , J. Wang

State-of-the-art industrial semiconductor device modeling is based on highly efficient Drift-Diffusion (DD) models that include some quantum corrections for nanodevices. In contrast, latest academic quantum transport models are based on the…

This research demonstrates analytical time-dependent non-equilibrium green function (TD-NEGF) algorithms to investigate dynamical functionalities of quantum devices, especially for photon-assisted transports. Together with the lumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 I-Lin Ho

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

The continuous scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has led to device geometries where charged carriers are increasingly confined to ever smaller channel cross sections. This development is associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leonard Deuschle , Jiang Cao , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Anders Winka , Alexander Maeder , Nicolas Vetsch , Mathieu Luisier

We propose a first-principles method of efficiently evaluating electron-transport properties of very long systems. Implementing the recursive Green's function method and the shifted conjugate gradient method in the transport simulator based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yoshiyuki Egami , Shigeru Tsukamoto , Tomoya Ono

Accurate determination of carrier transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) materials is critical for designing high-performance nano-electronic devices and quantum information platforms. While first-principles calculations effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Sathwik Bharadwaj , Ashwin Ramasubramaniam , L. R. Ram-Mohan

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

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

The quantum transport formalism based on tight-binding models is known to be powerful in dealing with a wide range of open physical systems subject to external driving forces but is, at the same time, limited by the memory requirement's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter

III-V tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) offer great potentials in future low-power electronics application due to their steep subthreshold slope and large "on" current. Their 3D quantum transport study using non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Jun Z. Huang , Lining Zhang , Pengyu Long , Michael Povolotskyi , Gerhard Klimeck

We present quantum simulations of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) based on top-gated architectures and compare to electrical characterization on devices with 15 nm channel lengths. A non-equilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Alfonso Sanchez-Soares , Thomas Kelly , Giorgos Fagas , James C. Greer , Edward Chen

Transport phenomena play a key role in a variety of application domains, and efficient simulation of these dynamics remains an outstanding challenge. While quantum computers offer potential for significant speedups, existing algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Joseph Li , Gengzhi Yang , Jiaqi Leng , Xiaodi Wu