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Nonequilibrium Greens function techniques (NEGF) combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become a standard tool for the description of electron transport through single molecule nanojunctions in the coherent…

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A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ahmet Ali Yanik , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta

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

Simulating electronic behavior in materials and devices with realistic large system sizes remains a formidable task within the $ab$ $initio$ framework due to its computational intensity. Here we show DeePTB, an efficient deep learning-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Qiangqiang Gu , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Shishir Kumar Pandey , Peng Zhang , Linfeng Zhang , Weinan E

Driven by Moore's Law, the dimensions of transistors have been pushed down to the nanometer scale. Advanced quantum transport (QT) solvers are required to accurately simulate such nano-devices. The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Vincent Maillou , Matthias Bollhofer , Olaf Schenk , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Mathieu Luisier

We report density-functional theory (DFT), atomistic simulations of the non-equilibrium transport properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs). Results have been obtained within a self-consistent approach based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Latessa , A. Pecchia , A. Di Carlo

The coherent quantum effect becomes increasingly important in the heat dissipation bottleneck of semiconductor nanoelectronics with the characteristic size shrinking down to few nano-meters scale nowadays. However, the quantum mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Yangyu Guo , Marc Bescond , Zhongwei Zhang , Mathieu Luisier , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz

We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Within this formalism, one can treat, on the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 M. Ridley , N. W. Talarico , D. Karlsson , N. Lo Gullo , R. Tuovinen

This work describes a novel simulation approach that combines machine learning and device modelling simulations. The device simulations are based on the quantum mechanical non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) approach and the machine…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Preslav Aleksandrov , Ali Rezaei , Nikolas Xeni , Tapas Dutta , Asen Asenov , Vihar Georgiev

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

We present an efficient implemention of a non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method for self-consistent calculations of electron transport and forces in nanostructured materials. The electronic structure is described at the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jingzhe Chen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

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

In this work, the low rank approximation concept is extended to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to achieve a very efficient approximated algorithm for coherent and incoherent electron transport. This new method is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lang Zeng , Yu He , Michael Povolotsky , XiaoYan Liu , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Declan Nell , Milos Radonjic , Ivan Rungger , Liviu Chioncel , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

The computational efficiency of a state of the art ab initio quantum transport (QT) solver, capable of revealing the coupled electro-thermal properties of atomically-resolved nano-transistors, has been improved by up to two orders of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Tal Ben-Nun , Guillermo Indalecio Fernández , Timo Schneider , Mathieu Luisier , Torsten Hoefler

In this work, we investigate the transport phenomena in compound semiconductor material based buried channel Quantum Well MOSFET with a view to developing a simple and effective model for the device current. Device simulation has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-14 Ehsanur Rahman , Abir Shadman , Sudipta Romen Biswas , Kanak Datta , Quazi D. M. Khosru

Atomistic quantum transport simulation of realistically large devices is computationally very demanding. The widely used mode space (MS) approach can significantly reduce the numerical cost but good MS basis is usually very hard to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jun Z. Huang , Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Michael Povolotskyi , Gerhard Klimeck

The quantum transport formalism based on tight-binding models is known to be powerful in dealing with a wide range of open physical systems subject to external driving forces but is, at the same time, limited by the memory requirement's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter

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

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Taisuke Ozaki , Kengo Nishio , Hiori Kino