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Using a first principles approach, we study the electron transport properties of two molecules of length 2.5nm which are the building blocks for a new class of molecular wires containing fluorenone units. We show that the presence of side…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Theodoros Papadopoulos , Iain Grace , Colin Lambert

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We study inelastic electron tunneling through a molecular junction using the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. The effect of the mutual influence between the phonon and the electron subsystems on the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

We study influence of electron-electron interaction on statistics of Coulomb blockade peak spacings in disordered quantum dots. It is shown that the interaction combined with fluctuations of eigenfunctions of the Fermi sea, enhances the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ya. M. Blanter , A. D. Mirlin , B. A. Muzykantskii

The interplay between interference effects and electron-electron interactions in electron transport through an interacting double quantum dot system is investigated using a hierarchical quantum master equation approach which becomes exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 R. Härtle , G. Cohen , D. R. Reichman , A. J. Millis

One-band Hubbard model with transverse anisotropy is considered at density of electrons $n=0.4$. It is shown that when the anisotropy is appropriately chosen, the ground state is ferromagnetic with magnetic order perpendicular to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-09 Naoum Karchev

We study coherence of electron transport through interacting quantum dots and discuss the relation of the coherent part to the flux-sensitive conductance for three different types of Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. Contributions to transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng , Zu-Quan Zhang , Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu

As the Fano effect is an interference phenomenon where tunneling paths compete for the electronic transport, it becomes a probe to catch fingerprints of Majorana fermions lying on condensed matter systems. In this work we benefit of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 F. A. Dessotti , L. S. Ricco , M. de Souza , F. M. Souza , A. C. Seridonio

We study the transport properties of a Josephson junction consisting of two identical $s$-wave superconductors separated by an even-layer ${\mathrm{MnBi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Te}}_{4}$ (MBT). Using recursive Green's function method, we calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

Recently, porphyrin units have been attached to graphene nanoribbons (Por-GNR) enabling a multitude of possible structures. Here we report first principles calculations of two prototypical, experimentally feasible, Por-GNR hybrids, one of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Fei Gao , Rodrigo E. Menchón , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Mads Brandbyge

We study non-equilibrium (NE) fluctuation-dissipation (FD) relations in the context of quantum thermoelectric transport through a two-terminal nanodevice, in the steady-state and with interaction. The FD relations for the one- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

The electrostatic gating effects on molecular transistors are investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) combined with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. When molecular energy levels are away from the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 D. Hou , J. H. Wei

We study electron transport through multiply-connected mesoscopic geometries containing interacting quantum dots. Our formulation covers both equilibrium and non-equilibrium physics. We discuss the relation of coherent transport channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

We study electronic transport through a strongly interacting quantum dot by using the finite temperature extension of Wilson's numerical renormalization group (NRG) method. This allows the linear conductance to be calculated at all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Costi

Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Lokanath Patra , Mayur Pratap Singh , Satish Kumar

We performed studies of coherent electronic transport through a single walled carbon nanotube. In the calculations multiple scattering on the contacts and interference processes were taken into account. Conductance is a composition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 W. Iwo Babiaczyk , Bogdan. R. Bulka

We investigate theoretically the transport properties of a closed Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing two quantum dots in the strong coupling regime. We find two distinct physical scenarios depending on the strength of the interdot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez , Minchul Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi , Pascal Simon , Karyn Le Hur

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 show that, when a finite anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain in the gapped regime is driven far from equilibrium, oppositely polarized ferromagnetic domains build up at the edges of the chain, thus suppressing quantum spin transport.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-03 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Tomaz Prosen , Davide Rossini