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First-principles molecular dynamics simulations of heat transport in systems with large-scale structural features are challenging due to their high computational cost. Here, using polycrystalline graphene as a case study, we demonstrate the…

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Transport properties of 2D materials especially close to their boundary has received much attention after the successful fabrication of graphene and other fascinating materials afterwards. While most previous work is devoted to the…

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Since any realistic electronic device has some degree of disorder, predicting disorder effects in quantum transport is a critical problem. Here we report the theory of nonequilibrium coherent potential approximation (NECPA) for analyzing…

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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) has been extensively used to study thermal transport at various length scales in many materials. In this method, two local thermostats at different temperatures are used to generate a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhen Li , Shiyun Xiong , Charles Sievers , Yue Hu , Zheyong Fan , Ning Wei , Hua Bao , Shunda Chen , Davide Donadio , Tapio Ala-Nissila

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 present a detailed treatment of the nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal transport due to atomic vibrations in nanostructures. Some of the key equations, such as self-energy and conductance with nonlinear effect, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Jian-Sheng Wang , Nan Zeng , Jian Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

We develop a neuroevolution-potential (NEP) framework for generating neural network based machine-learning potentials. They are trained using an evolutionary strategy for performing large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zheyong Fan , Zezhu Zeng , Cunzhi Zhang , Yanzhou Wang , Haikuan Dong , Yue Chen , Tapio Ala-Nissila

A new compact modeling approach is presented which describes the full current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of high-performance (aggressively scaled-down) tunneling field-effect-transistors (TFETs) based on homojunction direct-bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 Ramon B. Salazar , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Rajib Rahman , Gerhard Klimeck , Joerg Appenzeller

The extent to which quantum computers can simulate physical phenomena and solve the partial differential equations (PDEs) that govern them remains a central open question. In this work, one of the most fundamental PDEs is addressed: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Julien Zylberman , Thibault Fredon , Nuno F. Loureiro , Fabrice Debbasch

Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) is a seminal deterministic first-order method known to achieve the optimal order of iteration complexity for solving convex smooth optimization problems. Two distinct sequences of…

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We give nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) perspective on thermodynamics formulations for open quantum systems strongly coupled to baths. Scattering approach implying thermodynamic consideration of a super-system (system plus baths)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Nicolas Bergmann , Michael Galperin

We present an effective medium theory based on density functional theory that is implemented in VASP using the PAW method with a plane wave basis set. The transmission coefficient is derived through three complementary approaches: the…

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Motivated by recent efforts to develop quantum computing for practical, industrial-scale challenges, we demonstrate the effectiveness of state-of-the-art hybrid (not necessarily quantum) solvers in addressing the business-centric…

We propose a general framework for computing Retarded Green's Functions (RGFs) on quantum computers by recasting their evaluation as a problem of circuit differentiation. Our proposal is based on real-time evolution and specifically…

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The critical task of inferring anomalous cross-field transport coefficients is addressed in simulations of boundary plasmas with fluid models. A workflow for parameter inference in the UEDGE fluid code is developed using Bayesian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yichen Fu , Ben Dudson , Xiao Chen , Maxim Umansky , Filippo Scotti , Tom Rognlien , Anthony Leonard

The inverse design of metamaterial architectures presents a significant challenge, particularly for nonlinear mechanical properties involving large deformations, buckling, contact, and plasticity. Traditional methods, such as gradient-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Qibang Liu , Seid Koric , Diab Abueidda , Hadi Meidani , Philippe Geubelle

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a one-dimensional complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain by directly solving for the steady state Green's functions in terms of small perturbations around their equilibrium values. The model exhibits…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Cristian Zanoci , Brian Swingle

We develop robust and scalable fully implicit nonlinear finite element solvers for the simulations of biological transportation networks driven by the gradient flow minimization of a non-convex energy cost functional. Our approach employs a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich , Simone Portaro , Stefano Zampini

Integrating quantum circuits into deep learning pipelines remains challenging due to heuristic design limitations. We propose Q-DIVER, a hybrid framework combining a large-scale pretrained EEG encoder (DIVER-1) with a differentiable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Junghoon Justin Park , Yeonghyeon Park , Jiook Cha

We leverage physics-embedded differentiable graph network simulators (GNS) to accelerate particulate and fluid simulations to solve forward and inverse problems. GNS represents the domain as a graph with particles as nodes and learned…

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