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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

A nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) approach for spatially inhomogeneous, strongly correlated artificial atoms is presented and applied to compute the time-dependent properties while starting from a (correlated) initial few-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K Balzer , M Bonitz

Mode space approach has been used so far in NEGF to treat phonon scattering for computational efficiency. Here we perform a more rigorous quantum transport simulation in real space to consider interband scatterings as well. We show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Youngki Yoon , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Sayeef Salahuddin

The effect of phonon scattering on the intrinsic delay and cut-off frequency of Schottky barrier carbon nanotube (CNT) FETs is examined by self-consistently solving the Poisson equation and the Schrodinger equation using the non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Youngki Yoon , Yijian Ouyang , Jing Guo

We employ Non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) to describe the real-time dynamics of an adsorbate-surface model system exposed to ultrafast laser pulses. For a finite number of electronic orbitals, the system is solved exactly and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Boström , M. Hopjan , A. Kartsev , C. Verdozzi , C. -O. Almbladh

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

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

In this colloquia review we discuss methods for thermal transport calculations for nanojunctions connected to two semi-infinite leads served as heat-baths. Our emphases are on fundamental quantum theory and atomistic models. We begin with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jian Wang , J. T. Lu

The nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a powerful tool to study the nonequilibrium dynamics of correlated lattice systems, but its applicability to realistic system sizes and long timescales is limited by unfavorable memory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Maksymilian Środa , Ken Inayoshi , Michael Schüler , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Philipp Werner

This paper presents an ab initio methodology to account for electron-phonon interactions in 2D materials, focusing on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). It combines density functional theory and maximally localized Wannier functions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Jonathan Backman , Youseung Lee , Mathieu Luisier

This paper presents a novel {\em Interpolated Factored Green Function} method (IFGF) for the accelerated evaluation of the integral operators in scattering theory and other areas. Like existing acceleration methods in these fields, the IFGF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Christoph Bauinger , Oscar P. Bruno

A non-equilibrium Green's function method is applied to model high-field quantum transport and electron-phonon resonances in semiconductor superlattices. The field-dependent density of states for elastic (impurity) scattering is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shaoxin Feng , Christoph H. Grein , Michael E. Flatte

We propose an efficient procedure to obtain Green's functions by combining the shifted conjugate orthogonal conjugate gradient (shifted COCG) method with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method based on a real-space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Shigeru Iwase , Takeo Hoshi , Tomoya Ono

We present an accelerated and hardware parallelized integral-equation solver for the problem of acoustic scattering by a two-dimensional surface in three-dimensional space. The approach is based, in part, on the novel Interpolated Factored…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Edwin Jimenez , Christoph Bauinger , Oscar P. Bruno

We discuss the calculation of the carrier mobility in silicon films within the quantum Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) framework. We introduce a new method for the extraction of the carrier mobility that is free from contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Yann-Michel Niquet , Viet-Hung Nguyen , François Triozon , Ivan Duchemin , Olivier Nier , Denis Rideau

We have recently proposed a Nonequilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) approach to include Auger decay processes in the ultrafast charge dynamics of photoionized molecules. Within the so called Generalized Kadanoff-Baym Ansatz the fundamental…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Covito , E. Perfetto , A. Rubio , G. Stefanucci

We use the recently proposed scattering states numerical renormalization group (SNRG) approach to calculate $I(V)$ and the differential conductance through a single molecular level coupled to a local molecular phonon. We also discuss the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Andre Jovchev , Frithjof Anders

The control of phonon scattering by interfaces is critical to the manipulation of heat conduction in composite materials and semiconducting nanostructures. However, one of the factors limiting our understanding of elastic phonon scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Zhun-Yong Ong

We present novel methods implemented within the non-equilibrium Green function code (NEGF) transiesta based on density functional theory (DFT). Our flexible, next-generation DFT-NEGF code handles devices with one or multiple electrodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Nick Papior , Nicolás Lorente , Thomas Frederiksen , Alberto García , Mads Brandbyge

We demonstrate an efficient nonequilibrium Green's function transport calculation procedure based on the real-space finite-difference method. The direct inversion of matrices for obtaining the self-energy terms of electrodes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoya Ono , Yoshiyuki Egami , Kikuji Hirose