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An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…

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Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

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 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

A new approximate computational framework is proposed for computing the non-equilibrium charge density in the context of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method for quantum mechanical transport problems. The framework consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Quan Chen , Jun Li , Chiyung Yam , Yu Zhang , Ngai Wong , Guanhua Chen

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 derive a general expression for the electron nonequilibrium (NE) distribution function in the context of steady state quantum transport through a two-terminal nanodevice with interaction. The central idea for the use of NE distributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 H. Ness

We present the implementation of spinor quantum transport within the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) code TranSIESTA based on Density Functional Theory (DFT). First-principles methods play an essential role in molecular and material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Nils Wittemeier , Nick Papior , Mads Brandbyge , Zeila Zanolli , Pablo Ordejón

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 consider a projection operator approach to the non-equilbrium Green function equation-of-motion (PO-NEGF EOM) method. The technique resolves problems of arbitrariness in truncation of an infinite chain of EOMs, and prevents violation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner

To explore whether the density-functional theory non-equilibrium Green's function formalism (DFT-NEGF) provides a rigorous framework for quantum transport, we carried out time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-01 ChiYung Yam , Xiao Zheng , GuanHua Chen , Yong Wang , Thomas Frauenheim , Thomas A. Niehaus

Density functional theory (DFT) combined with non-equilibrium Greens functions (NEGF) is a powerful approach to model quantum transport under external bias potentials, at reasonable computational cost. In this work we present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Christian S. Ahart , Sergey Chulkov , Clotilde S. Cucinotta

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

Simulations of quantum transport in coherent conductors have evolved into mature techniques that are used in fields of physics ranging from electrical engineering to quantum nanoelectronics and material science. The most efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Mathieu Istas , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

Designing nanoscale electronic devices such as the currently manufactured nanoribbon field-effect transistors (NRFETs) requires advanced modeling tools capturing all relevant quantum mechanical effects. State-of-the-art approaches combine…

The Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method was established in the 1960's through the classic work of Schwinger, Kadanoff, Baym, Keldysh and others using many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and the diagrammatic theory for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Kerem Y. Camsari , Shuvro Chowdhury , Supriyo Datta

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 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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Michael Bonitz , Jan-Philip Joost , Christopher Makait , Erik Schroedter , Tim Karsberger , Karsten Balzer

The simulation of quantum transport in nanodevices requires the solution of the Dyson and Keldysh equations, a task dominated by the inversion of massive, block-tridiagonal matrices. While the Recursive Green's Function (RGF) method has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Edoardo Di Napoli , Alessandro Pecchia , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo

The numerical solution of the Kadanoff-Baym nonlinear integro-differential equations, which yields the non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGFs) of quantum many-body systems, poses significant computational challenges due to its high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jia Yin , Khaled Z. Ibrahim , Mauro Del Ben , Jack Deslippe , Yang-hao Chan , Chao Yang