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The theory of Nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF) has seen a rapid development over the recent three decades. Applications include diverse correlated many-body systems in and out of equilibrium. Very good agreement with experiments and…

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Emphasizing the contribution of Professor Roger A Cowley, FRS to the Theory of Raman Scattering from crystals, the development of the Theory of Raman cattering since 1928 has been briefly discussed. Some experimental studies of Strontium…

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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…

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We put forward a practical nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) scheme to perform real-time evolutions of many-body interacting systems driven out of equilibrium by external fields. CHEERS is a computational tool to solve the NEGF…

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A spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (spin MOSFET), which combines a Schottky-barrier MOSFET with ferromagnetic source and drain contacts, is a promising device for spintronic logic. Previous simulation studies predict…

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We develop a nonperturbative dynamical theory (NDT) to calculate the retarded Green's function under nonequilibrium conditions. The NDT is particularly useful for treating nonequilibrium transport problems in systems with strong…

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We discuss recent \emph{ab initio} calculations based on self-consistent Green's function theory. It is found that a simple extension of the formalism to account for two-nucleon scattering outside the model space allows to calculate…

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Extended Huckel theory (EHT) along with NEGF (Non-equilibrium Green's function formalism) has been used for modeling coherent transport through molecules. Incorporating dephasing has been proposed to theoretically reproduce experimental…

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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…

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New two diemensional structures nanoribbon including phosphorus and germanium atoms are introduced for the nanoelectronic applications. Under various bias voltages, the electronic transport in the systems have been studied within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Maryam Azizi , Badie Ghavami

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…

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