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Using the Kadanoff-Baym non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, we derive kinetic equations for the non-condensate atoms at finite temperatures which include the effect of binary collisions between atoms. The effect of collisions is…
We study the temporal evolution of quantum mechanical fermionic particles exhibiting one bound state within a one-dimensional attractive square-well potential in a heat bath of bosonic particles. For this open quantum system we formulate…
Two-terminal spintronic devices remain challenging to model under realistic operating conditions, where the interplay of complex electronic structures, correlation effects and bias-driven non-equilibrium dynamics may significantly impact…
A generalized Landauer formula, derived with the methods due to Keldysh, and Baym and Kadanoff, is gaining widespread use in the modeling of transport in a large number of different mesoscopic systems. We review some of the recent…
We show that the nonperturbative transport equations, the so called `Kadanoff-Baym equations', within the non-equilibrium real time Green's function description can be be understood as the ensemble average over stochastic equations of…
We study quantum entanglement and its relation to transport in a non-equilibrium interacting double dot system connected to electronic baths. The dynamical properties in the non-interacting regime are studied using an exact numerical…
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…
The unavoidable coupling of quantum systems to external degrees of freedom leads to dissipative (non-unitary) dynamics, which can be radically different from closed-system scenarios. Such open quantum system dynamics is generally described…
Within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique on the real time contour, the Phi-functional method of Baym is reviewed and generalized to arbitrary non-equilibrium many-particle systems. The scheme may be closed at any desired order…
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…
The two-particle problem within a nonequilibrium many-particle system is investigated in the framework of real-time Green's functions. Starting from the dynamically screened ladder approximation of the nonequlibrium Bethe-Salpeter equation,…
Ab initio modeling of molecular electronics is nowadays routinely performed by combining the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) techniques. This method has its roots in the current formula given by Meir…
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…
The quantum transport through nanoscale junctions is governed by the charging energy $U$ of the device. We employ the recently developed scattering-states numerical renormalization group approach to open quantum systems to study…
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…
Although coherent manipulation of electronic states can be achieved in quantum dot (QD) devices by harnessing nanofabrication tools, it is often hard to fathom the extent to which these nanoelectronic devices can behave quantum…
Time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's functions (TDNEGF) are shown to provide a flexible, effective tool for the description of quantum mechanical single particle scattering on a spatially localized, time-dependent potential. Focusing on…
The feasibility of a perturbation expansion for Green's functions of the t-J model directly in terms of X-operators is demonstrated using the Baym- Kadanoff functional method. As an application we derive explicit expressions for the kernel…
Using the Kadanoff-Baym-Keldysh formalism, we employ nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory to exactly solve for the nonlinear response of an electron-mediated charge-density-wave-ordered material. We examine both the dc current and the…
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…