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In semi-classical transport, it has become common practice over the past few decades to use ensemble Monte Carlo (EMC) methods for the simulation of transport in semiconductor devices. This method utilizes particles while still addressing…

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This article presents an overview on recent progress in the theory of nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). NEGF, presently, are the only \textit{ab-initio} quantum approach that is able to study the dynamics of correlations for long times…

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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

The theory of Nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF) has seen a rapid development over the recent three decades. Applications include diverse correlated many-body systems in and out of equilibrium. Very good agreement with experiments and…

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Since the initial development of one-dimensional electron gases (1DEG) two decades ago, there has been intense interest in both the fundamental physics and the potential applications, including quantum computation, of these quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-02 Raphael Rosen

We have recently proposed a Nonequilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) approach to include Auger decay processes in the ultrafast charge dynamics of photoionized molecules. Within the so called Generalized Kadanoff-Baym Ansatz the fundamental…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Covito , E. Perfetto , A. Rubio , G. Stefanucci

The nonequilibrium dynamics of correlated many-particle systems is of interest in connection with pump-probe experiments on molecular systems and solids, as well as theoretical investigations of transport properties and relaxation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Michael Schüler , Denis Golež , Yuta Murakami , Nikolaj Bittner , Andreas Hermann , Hugo U. R. Strand , Philipp Werner , Martin Eckstein

Nonequilibrium Green's functions provide a powerful framework for studying quantum many-body dynamics including the laser-induced dynamics in solids. The Non-Equilibrium Systems Simulation package (NESSi) offers an efficient platform for…

The concept of transmission eigenchannels is described in a tight-binding nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework. A simple procedure for calculating the eigenchannels is derived using only the properties of the device subspace and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Magnus Paulsson , Mads Brandbyge

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Edoardo Di Napoli , Alessandro Pecchia , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo

We present an overview of electronic device modeling using non-equilibrium Green function techniques. The basic approach developed in the early 1970s has become increasingly popular during the last 10 years. The rise in popularity was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger K. Lake , Rajeev R. Pandey

Considering von Neumann expression for reduced density matrix as thermodynamic entropy of a system strongly coupled to baths, we use nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) techniques to derive bath and energy resolved expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Nikhil Seshadri , Michael Galperin

We consider a projection operator approach to the non-equilbrium Green function equation-of-motion (PO-NEGF EOM) method. The technique resolves problems of arbitrariness in truncation of an infinite chain of EOMs, and prevents violation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner

We present the implementation of spinor quantum transport within the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) code TranSIESTA based on Density Functional Theory (DFT). First-principles methods play an essential role in molecular and material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Nils Wittemeier , Nick Papior , Mads Brandbyge , Zeila Zanolli , Pablo Ordejón

The objective of this paper is to describe a simple phenomenological approach for including incoherent dephasing processes in quantum transport models. The presented illustrative numerical results show this model provides the flexibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roksana Golizadeh-Mojarad , Supriyo Datta

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

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties that make them promising candidates for next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Accurate prediction of their quantum transport behavior is therefore of both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey

Inelastic effects in electron transport through nano-sized devices are addressed with a method based on nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) and perturbation theory to infinite order in the electron-vibration coupling. We discuss the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge , Nicolas Lorente , Antti-Pekka Jauho

A new theoretical framework for the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) scheme is presented to account for the discrete nature of impurities doped in semiconductor nanostructures. The short-range part of impurity potential is included as…

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