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The Landauer-Buettiker theory of mesoscopic conductors was recently extended to nanoelectromechanical systems. In this extension, the adiabatic reaction forces exerted by the electronic degrees of freedom on the mechanical modes were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Mark Thomas , Torsten Karzig , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Gergely Zarand , Felix von Oppen

We present a multiprobe recursive Green's function method to compute the transport properties of mesoscopic systems using the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach. By introducing an adaptive partition scheme, we map the multiprobe problem into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Leandro R. F. Lima , Amintor Dusko , Caio Lewenkopf

We analyze and develop numerical methods for time-harmonic wave scattering in metallic waveguide structures of infinite extent. We show that radiation boundary conditions formulated via projectors onto outgoing modes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Tristan Goodwill , Shidong Jiang , Manas Rachh , Kosuke Sugita

Due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear, industrial components may have uncertainties. In order to evaluate the performance of machined components, it is crucial to quantify the uncertainty of the scattering surface. This brings up an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yi Wang , Lei Lin , Junliang Lv

Advantages in several fields of research and industry are expected with the rise of quantum computers. However, the computational cost to load classical data in quantum computers can impose restrictions on possible quantum speedups. Known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Israel F. Araujo , Daniel K. Park , Francesco Petruccione , Adenilton J. da Silva

Inverse design of large-area metasurfaces can potentially exploit the full parameter space that such devices offer and achieve highly efficient multifunctional flat optical elements. However, since practically useful flat optics elements…

We report a scattering matrix theory for dynamic and nonlinear transport in coherent mesoscopic conductors. In general this theory allows predictions of low frequency linear dynamic conductance, as well as weakly nonlinear DC conductance.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Zhong-shui Ma , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

In addition to the well-known Landauer-Buttiker scattering theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique for mesoscopic transports, an alternative (and very useful) scheme is quantum master equation approach. In this article, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Xin-Qi Li

The Kubo formula is a cornerstone in our understanding of near-equilibrium transport phenomena. While conceptually elegant, the application of Kubo's linear-response theory to interesting problems is hindered by the need for algorithms that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Santiago Giménez de Castro , João M. Viana Parente Lopes , Aires Ferreira , D. A. Bahamon

We present a scalable algorithm for solving the transport equation in two and three spatial dimensions for variable grid sizes and discrete velocities on a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer. As a proof of concept of our quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Merel A. Schalkers , Matthias Möller

We consider the learning of algorithmic tasks by mere observation of input-output pairs. Rather than studying this as a black-box discrete regression problem with no assumption whatsoever on the input-output mapping, we concentrate on tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Alex Nowak-Vila , David Folqué , Joan Bruna

Transport and scattering phenomena in open quantum-systems with a continuous energy spectrum are conveniently solved using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. In the time-dependent picture, the evolution of an initially localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Tobias Kramer

In this paper, we consider the scattering theory for a one-dimensional quantum walk with impurities which make reflections and transmissions. We focus on an explicit expression of the scattering operator. Our construction of the formula is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Takashi Komatsu , Norio Konno , Hisashi Morioka , Etsuo Segawa

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

We introduce a novel linear transport equation that models the evolution of a one-particle distribution subject to free transport and two distinct scattering mechanisms: one affecting the particle's speed and the other its direction. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Martina Conte , Nadia Loy

We describe a unified quantum approach for analyzing the scattering coefficients of superconducting microwave resonators with a variety of geometries. We also generalize the method to a chain of resonators with time delays, and reveal…

We present an efficient algorithm for recent generalizations of optimal mass transport theory to matrix-valued and vector-valued densities. These generalizations lead to several applications including diffusion tensor imaging, color images…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yongxin Chen , Eldad Haber , Kaoru Yamamoto , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

We propose a first-principles method of efficiently evaluating electron-transport properties of very long systems. Implementing the recursive Green's function method and the shifted conjugate gradient method in the transport simulator based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yoshiyuki Egami , Shigeru Tsukamoto , Tomoya Ono

The transfer-matrix methodology is used to solve linear systems of differential equations, such as those that arise when solving Schr\"odinger's equation, in situations where the solutions of interest are in the continuous part of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alexandre Mayer

This article presents the first complete application of a quantum time-marching algorithm for simulating multidimensional linear transport phenomena with arbitrary boundaries, whereby the success probabilities are problem intrinsic. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Sergio Bengoechea , Paul Over , Thomas Rung