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We propose and apply the finite-element discrete variable representation to express the nonequilibrium Green's function for strongly inhomogeneous quantum systems. This method is highly favorable against a general basis approach with regard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 K. Balzer , S. Bauch , M. Bonitz

We theoretically study the atomic structure and energetics of silicon and silicon-nitrogen impurities in graphene. Using density-functional theory, we get insight into the atomic structures of the impurities, evaluate their formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Mikko M. Ervasti , Zheyong Fan , Andreas Uppstu , Arkady Krasheninnikov , Ari Harju

Electronic transport properties in armchair shaped edges graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) doped various impurities have been simulated by the non-equilibrium Green's function approach combined with the first principle calculation based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hiroyoshi Tsuyuki , Shoichi Sakamoto , Mitsuyoshi Tomiya

The impurity Green's function Gf in the local non-Fermi liquid state is evaluated by means of the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method extended to the multichannel Anderson model. For N=M (where N and M are numbers of spin components…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Junya Otsuki

The transport and gain properties of quantum cascade (QC) structures are investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) theory which includes quantum effects beyond a Boltzmann transport description. In the NGF theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -C. Lee , A. Wacker

Fundamental properties of unstable particles, including mass, width, and partial widths, are examined on the basis of the Nielsen identities (NI) that describe the gauge dependence of Green functions. In particular, we prove that the pole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Pietro A. Grassi , Bernd A. Kniehl , Alberto Sirlin

Transport properties of 2D materials especially close to their boundary has received much attention after the successful fabrication of graphene and other fascinating materials afterwards. While most previous work is devoted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Fanbing Xia , Jian Wang

We study the properties of spin-less non-interacting fermions trapped in a confining potential in one dimension but in the presence of one or more impurities which are modelled by delta function potentials. We use a method based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-03 David S. Dean , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

An approach to calculation of the ionized impurity and surface roughness scattering rates of electrons in very thin semiconductor quantum wires taking into account the energy level broadening is worked out. It is assumed that all the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Pozdnyakov , Vadim Galenchik , Vladimir Borzdov , Fadei Komarov , Oleg Zhevnyak

A nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) approach for spatially inhomogeneous, strongly correlated artificial atoms is presented and applied to compute the time-dependent properties while starting from a (correlated) initial few-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K Balzer , M Bonitz

A formalism for incorporating electron-phonon scattering into the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework that is applicable to planar MOSFETs is presented. Restructuring the NEGF equations in terms of approximate summation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Himadri S. Pal , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Raseong Kim , Mark S. Lundstrom

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Peter Foldi

We have studied the massive parafermionic sector of an integrable spin-$s$ chain with an impurity of spin-$s^{'}$ in presence of a magnetic field. The effect of the impurity is encoded in a computable parafermionic impurity scattering…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. J. Martins

The spectral properties of the quantum mechanical system consisting of a quantum dot with a short-range attractive impurity inside the dot are investigated in the zero-range limit. The Green function of the system is obtained in an explicit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bruening , V. Geyler , I. Lobanov

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 235428 (2011)]. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We report a detailed analytic investigation of the interplay between size quantization and local scattering centers in armchair graphene nanoribbons, as seen in the conductance. The scattering property of a local scattering center is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Anders Bergvall , Tomas Lofwander

Computationally inexpensive approximations describing electron-phonon scattering in molecular-scale conductors are derived from the non-equilibrium Green's function method. The accuracy is demonstrated with a first principles calculation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Magnus Paulsson , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamil Walczak

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

We study the density of states in disordered s-wave superconductors with a small gap anisotropy. Disorder comes in the form of common nonmagnetic scatterers and pairing-potential impurities, which interact with electrons via an electric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-30 Anton Bespalov , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov