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The electric conductance of a molecular junction is calculated by recasting the Keldysh formalism in Liouville space. Dyson equations for nonequilibrium many body Green's functions (NEGF) are derived directly in real (physical) time. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Harbola , S. Mukamel

In this paper we develop the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism for a dissipative molecular junction that consists of a central molecular system with one-dimensional electronic transport coupled to a phonon environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Matthew A Lane , Lev Kantorovich

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

This article presents an overview on recent progress in the theory of nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). NEGF, presently, are the only \textit{ab-initio} quantum approach that is able to study the dynamics of correlations for long times…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-20 N. Schluenzen , S. Hermanns , M. Scharnke , M. Bonitz

Using non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF), we calculate the current through an interacting region connected to non-interacting leads. The problem is reformulated in such a way that a Landauer-like term appears in the current as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Ness , L. K. Dash , R. W. Godby

Non-equilibrium Greens function techniques (NEGF) combined with Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations have become a standard tool for the description of electron transport through single molecule nano-junctions in the coherent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Stadler , V. Geskin , J. Cornil

The nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly-correlated fermions in lattice systems have attracted considerable interest in the condensed matter and ultracold atomic-gas communities. While experiments have made remarkable progress in recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-03 N. Schluenzen , J. -P. Joost , F. Heidrich-Meisner , M. Bonitz

Non equilibrium Green's function methods are regularly used to calculate current and charge densities in nanoscale (both molecular and semiconductor) conductors under bias. This method is mainly used for ballistic conduction but may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Paulsson

Considering von Neumann expression for reduced density matrix as thermodynamic entropy of a system strongly coupled to baths, we use nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) techniques to derive bath and energy resolved expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Nikhil Seshadri , Michael Galperin

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

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

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

We consider the electron transport properties through fully interacting nanoscale junctions beyond the linear-response regime. We calculate the current flowing through an interacting region connected to two interacting leads, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We develop nonequilibribrium Green's function based transport theory, which includes effects of nonadiabatic nuclear motion in the calculation of the electric current in molecular junctions. Our approach is based on the separation of slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

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

We present a brief pedagogical review of theoretical Green's function methods applicable to open quantum systems out of equilibrium in general, and single molecule junctions in particular. We briefly describe experimental advances in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Guy Cohen , Michael Galperin

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

The ultrafast hole dynamics triggered by the photoexcitation of molecular targets is a highly correlated process even for those systems, like organic molecules, having a weakly correlated ground state. We here provide a unifying framework…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci

Simulations of interacting electrons and bosons out of equilibrium, starting from first principles and aiming at realistic multiscale scenarios, is a grand theoretical challenge. Here, using the formalism of nonequilibrium Green's functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-06 Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Enrico Perfetto , Daniel Karlsson , Robert van Leeuwen , Gianluca Stefanucci

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