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We investigate the scattering phenomena in two dimensions produced by a general finite-range nonseparable potential. This situation can appear either in a Cartesian geometry or in a heterostructure with cylindrical symmetry. Increasing the…

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We present a Machine Learning approach to solve electronic quantum transport equations of one-dimensional nanostructures. The transmission coefficients of disordered systems were computed to provide training and test datasets to the…

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We describe a method for calculating the counting statistics of electronic transport through nanoscale devices with both sequential and cotunneling contributions. The method is based upon a perturbative expansion of the von Neumann equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-10 Clive Emary

By combining quantum simulations of electron transport and scanning-gate microscopy, we have shown that the current transmitted through a semiconductor two-path rectangular network in the ballistic and coherent regimes of transport can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 S. Huant , S. Baltazar , P. Liu , H. Sellier , B. Hackens , F. Martins , V. Bayot , X. Wallart , L. Desplanque , M. G. Pala

We present a comprehensive first-principles study of the ballistic transport properties of low dimensional nanostructures such as linear chains of atoms (Al, C) and carbon nanotubes in presence of defects. A novel approach is introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arrigo Calzolari , Nicola Marzari , Ivo Souza , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

The transport of quantum electrons through hierarchical lattices is of interest because such lattices have some properties of both regular lattices and random systems. We calculate the electron transmission as a function of energy in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-04-13 S. Boettcher , C. Varghese , M. A. Novotny

We present a theoretical framework for the calculation of charge transport through nanowire-based Schottky-barrier field-effect transistors that is conceptually simple but still captures the relevant physical mechanisms of the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Daijiro Nozaki , Jens Kunstmann , Felix Zörgiebel , Walter M. Weber , Thomas Mikolajick , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We present a theory of tunneling and resonant transitions in one-dimensional molecular systems which is based on Green's function theory of electron sub-barrier scattering off the structural units (or functional groups) of a molecular…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. I. Oleynik , M. A. Kozhushner , V. S. Posvyanskii

The transition matrix elements between the correlated $N$ and $N\!+\!1$ electron states of a quantum dot are calculated by numerical diagonalization. They are the central ingredient for the linear and non--linear transport properties which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kristian Jauregui , Wolfgang Häusler , Dietmar Weinmann , Bernhard Kramer

An analytic approach to the electron transport phenomena in molecular devices is presented. Analyzed devices are composed of organic molecules attached to the two semi-infinite electrodes. Molecular system is described within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

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

Neutron cross section matrices for fission and scattering data are required for each material, temperature, and enrichment level to calculate the neutron transport equation accurately. This information can be a limiting factor when using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Ben Whewell , Ryan G. McClarren

We present a theoretical study of transport properties through superconducting contacts based on a new formulation of boundary conditions that mimics interfaces for the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. These boundary conditions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Cuevas , M. Fogelstrom

The unique photon-scattering phenomena of giant-atom systems offer a novel paradigm for exploring innovative quantum optics phenomena and applications. Here, we investigate a giant-atom configuration embedded in a dual-rail waveguide, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Rui-Yang Gong , Zi-Yu He , Cheng-He Yu , Ge-Fei Zhang , Franco Nori , Ze-Liang Xiang

Despite their ubiquity in nanoscale electronic devices, the physics of tunnel barriers has not been developed to the extent necessary for the engineering of devices in the few-electron regime. This problem is of urgent interest, as this is…

The formation of metallic nanofilaments bridging two electrodes across an insulator is a mechanism for resistive switching. Examples of such phenomena include atomic synapses, which constitute a distinct class of memristive devices whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Alison A. Silva , Fabiano M. Andrade , Francesco Caravelli

We present a self-contained description of the wave-function matching (WFM) method to calculate electronic quantum transport properties of nanostructures using the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach. The method is based on a partition of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Tatiane P. Santos , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Here, we employ a numerical approach to investigate the transport and conductance characteristics of a quantum point contact. A quantum point contact is a narrow constriction of a width comparable to the electron wavelength defined in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 G. Bilgec Akyüz , A. Siddiki

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

Charge transport through molecular junctions is often described either as a purely coherent or a purely classical phenomenon, and described using the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism or Marcus theory, respectively. Using a generalised quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Jakub K. Sowa , Jan A. Mol , G. Andrew D. Briggs , Erik M. Gauger