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A many-body Green's function approach to the microscopic theory of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy is presented within the context of localized surface-plasmon resonance spectroscopy and applied to investigate the coupling between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 David J. Masiello , George C. Schatz

Quantifying the flow of energy within and through fluctuating nanoscale systems poses a significant challenge to understanding microscopic biological machines. A common approach involves coarse-graining, which allows a simplified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-12 Steven J Large , David A Sivak

A relativistic Green's function approach to parity-violating quasielastic electron scattering is presented. The components of the hadron tensor are expressed in terms of the single particle Green's function, which is expanded in terms of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Meucci , Carlotta Giusti , Franco Davide Pacati

We analyze the broad range of spin-dependent nonequilibrium transport properties of hybrid systems composed of a normal region tunnel coupled to two superconductors with exchange fields induced by the proximity to thin ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , P. D'Amico , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

We investigate chemical bond formation and conductance in a molecular C60-junction under finite bias voltage using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's functions (DFT-NEGF). At the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Søren Ulstrup , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

A relativistic Green function approach to the inclusive quasielastic (e,e') scattering is presented. The single particle Green function is expanded in terms of the eigenfunctions of the nonhermitian optical potential. This allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Meucci , Franco Capuzzi , Carlotta Giusti , Franco Davide Pacati

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Antti-Pekka Jauho

We theoretically study how a scattered electron can entangle molecular spin qubits (MSQs). This requires solving the inelastic transport of a single electron through a scattering region described by a tight-binding interacting Hamiltonian.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Christian Bunker , Silas Hoffman , Jie-Xiang Yu , Xiao-Guang Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

The description of the dynamics of correlated electrons in quantum impurity models is typically described within the nonequilibrium Green function formalism combined with a suitable approximation. One common approach is based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-26 Tal J. Levy , Eran Rabani

The theoretical description of strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium presents several challenges and a number of open questions persist. In this paper we focus on nonlinear electronic transport through a quantum dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-27 Prasenjit Dutt , Jens Koch , J. E. Han , Karyn Le Hur

Here we present a theoretical analysis of the effect of inelastic electron scattering on spin-dependent transport characteristics (conductance, current-voltage dependence, magnetoresistance, shot noise spectrum, Fano factor) for magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

We suggest to include the density of electron charge explicitly in the electron potential of density functional theory, rather than implicitly via exchange-correlation functionals. The advantages of the approach are conceptual and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A. Hofer , Krisztian Palotas

We develop a wavefunction approach to describe the scattering of two photons on a quantum emitter embedded in a one-dimensional waveguide. Our method allows us to calculate the exact dynamics of the complete system at all times, as well as…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

Modeling nanoscale devices quantum mechanically is a computationally challenging problem where new methods to solve the underlying equations are in a dire need. In this paper, we present an approach to calculate the charge density in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-07 U. Hetmaniuk , Y. Zhao , M. P. Anantram

After the discovery of GMR by Fert and Gr\"unberg, electronics had a breakthrough with the birth of a new branch called spintronics. This discipline, while still young, exploits the spin of electrons. Most quantum devices exploiting this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Yann Claveau

We report an exhaustive study of the performance of different variants of Green function methods for the spherium model in which two electrons are confined to the surface of a sphere and interact via a genuine long-range Coulomb operator.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Pierre-François Loos , Pina Romaniello , J. A. Berger

We reexamine several issues related to the physics of scaling in electron scattering from nuclei. A basic model is presented in which an assumed form for the momentum distribution having both long- and short-range contributions is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 D. Berardo , M. B. Barbaro , R. Cenni , T. W. Donnelly , A. Molinari

We present a general theoretical formulation, based on nonequilibrium Green's functions, for nonlinear DC transport in multi-probe mesoscopic conductors. The theory is gauge invariant and is useful for the predictions of current-voltage…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Understanding transport processes in complex nanoscale systems, like ionic conductivities in nanofluidic devices or heat conduction in low dimensional solids, poses the problem of examining fluctuations of currents within nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 David T. Limmer , Chloe Y. Gao , Anthony R. Poggioli