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In our theoretical study where we combine a nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach with density functional theory (DFT) we investigate compounds containing a ferrocene moiety which is connected to i) thiol anchor groups on both…

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Progress towards the energy breakthroughs needed to combat climate change can be significantly accelerated through the efficient simulation of atomic systems. Simulation techniques based on first principles, such as Density Functional…

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We present, here, advanced DFT-NEGF techniques that we have implemented in our ATOmistic MOdelling Solver, ATOMOS, to explore transport in novel materials and devices and in particular in van-der-Waals heterojunction transistors. We…

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We present recent advances in Density Functional Theory (DFT) for applications to the field of quantum transport, with particular emphasis on transport through strongly correlated systems. We review the foundations of the popular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 S. Kurth , G. Stefanucci

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…

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We present SIESTA-BdG, an implementation of the simultaneous solution of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) problem in SIESTA, a first-principles method and code for material simulations which uses…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-05 R. Reho , N. Wittemeier , A. H. Kole , P. Ordejón , Z. Zanolli

The simulation of quantum transport in nanodevices requires the solution of the Dyson and Keldysh equations, a task dominated by the inversion of massive, block-tridiagonal matrices. While the Recursive Green's Function (RGF) method has…

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Scalable quantum information processing in spin-based architectures necessitates the a bility to reliably shuttle quantum states across extended device regions with minimal decoherence. In this work, we present a physics-informed algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Andrii Sokolov , Conor Power , Elena Blokhina

State-of-the-art industrial semiconductor device modeling is based on highly efficient Drift-Diffusion (DD) models that include some quantum corrections for nanodevices. In contrast, latest academic quantum transport models are based on the…

We describe how the spin Hall effect (SHE) can be studied from ab-initio by combining density functional theory with the non-equilibrium Green's functions technique for quantum transport into the so-called DFT+NEGF method. After laying down…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Akash Bajaj , Reena Gupta , Ilya V. Tokatly , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

By carrying out density functional theory (DFT) analysis within the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework, we investigate the quantum transport properties of Au-C60-Au molecular junctions from the first principles. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Sergueev , D. Roubtsov , H. Guo

This chapter of "The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology: Frontiers and Advances" reviews nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) approach to modeling spin current generation, transport, and detection in semiconductor nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

We present a rigorous and computationally efficient method to do a parameter-free analysis of molecular wires connected to contacts. The self-consistent field approach is coupled with Non-equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Prashant Damle , Avik W. Ghosh , Supriyo Datta

Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) and quantum master equation (QME) are two main classes of approaches for electronic transport. We discuss various Floquet variances of these formalisms for transport properties of a quantum dot driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Vahid Mosallanejad , Yu Wang , Wenjie Dou

Time-dependent quantum transport for graphene nanoribbons (GNR) are calculated by the hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM) method based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory (Xie et.al, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 044113, 2012). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hang Xie , Yanho Kwok , Yu Zhang , Feng Jiang , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan , GuanHua Chen

In this work a framework for quantum transport simulation from first principles is introduced, focusing on the coherent case. The model is based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism and maximally localized Wannier…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Christian Stieger , Mathieu Luisier

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

The fully self-consistent non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGFs) approach to the quantum transport is developed for the investigation of one-dimensional nano-scale devices. Numerical calculations performed for resonant tunneling diodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Van Nam Do , Philippe Dollfus , Van Lien Nguyen

Understanding transport phenomena in quantum spin systems has long intrigued physicists due to their potential applications in spintronic devices and spin qubits. Here, using a superconducting-qubit-based transmon device, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yi-Ting Lee , Bibek Pokharel , Jeffrey Cohn , Andre Schleife , Arnab Banerjee

We propose an efficient procedure to obtain Green's functions by combining the shifted conjugate orthogonal conjugate gradient (shifted COCG) method with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method based on a real-space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Shigeru Iwase , Takeo Hoshi , Tomoya Ono