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The existing kinetic theory of gases is based on an analytical approach that becomes intractable for all but the simplest molecules. Here we propose a simple numerical scheme to compute the transport properties of molecular gases in the…
While the vast majority of calculations reported on molecular conductance have been based on the static non-equilibrium Green's function formalism combined with density functional theory, in recent years a few time-depedent approaches to…
We report computational uncertainties in Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE)-based lattice thermal conductivity prediction of 50 diverse semiconductors from the use of different BTE solvers (ShengBTE, Phono3Py, and in-house code) and…
It is essential to know the arrangement of the atoms in a material in order to compute and understand its properties. Searching for stable structures of materials using first-principles electronic structure methods, such as density…
One of the ultimate goals of computational modeling in condensed matter is to be able to accurately compute materials properties with minimal empirical information. First-principles approaches such as the density functional theory (DFT)…
Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…
We propose and work out a reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) for calculating energies of eigenstates of interacting many-electron systems beyond the ground state. Various obstacles which historically have doomed such an…
Cyclometalled Ir(III) compounds are the preferred choice as organic emitters in Organic Light Emitting Diodes. In practice, the presence of the transition metals surrounded by carefully designed ligands allows the fine tuning of the…
We propose and compare different strategies to construct dynamic density functional theories (DDFTs) for inhomogeneous polymer systems close to equilibrium from microscopic simulation trajectories. We focus on the systematic construction of…
We investigate the trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency for several flavors of the dissipative mode-space NEGF algorithm with the self-consistent Born approximation for DFT Hamiltonians. Using these models, we then demonstrate the…
The dynamic structure factor, vorticity and entropy density dynamic correlation functions are measured for Stochastic Rotation Dynamics (SRD), a particle based algorithm for fluctuating fluids. This allows us to obtain unbiased values for…
In this paper, we present a new multibody physics simulation framework that utilizes the subsystem-based structure and the Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM). The major challenge in simulating complex high degree of freedom…
Understanding heat transport in semiconductors and insulators is of fundamental importance because of its technological impact in electronics and renewable energy harvesting and conversion. Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics provides a powerful…
We validate the application of our recent orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) approach, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 155006 (2014)], for the calculation of ionic and electronic transport properties of dense plasmas. To this end, we…
We propose a first-principles time-dependent density functional theoretical (TDDFT) approach in momentum (P) space for quantitative study of electron transport in molecular devices under arbitrary biases. In this approach, the basic…
Using the bottom-up approach in a holographic setting, we attempt to study both the transport and thermodynamic properties of a generic system in 3+1 dimensional bulk spacetime. We show the exact 1/T and $T^2$ dependence of the longitudinal…
We present results of electronic structure and transport calculations for metallic interfaces, based on density functional theory and the non-equilibrium Green's functions method. Starting from the electronic structure of smooth Al, Cu, Ag,…
We propose a new method for computing Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) evolution matrices, which we use to analyze dynamical systems. Unlike the majority of existing methods, our approach is based on a variational formulation consisting of…
Numerical simulations using the Monte Carlo method were performed to study the electrical conductivity of two-dimensional films filled with rodlike particles (rods). The main goal was to investigate the effect of rod alignment on the…
The calculation of thermal conductivity in insulating solids at temperatures below the Debye temperature is problematic, due to the breakdown of classical and semi-classical approaches. In this work, we present a fully quantum methodology…