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Based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) coupled with density function theory (DFT), namely, NEGF-DFT quantum transport theory, we propose an efficient formalism to calculate the transient current of molecular devices under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Zhang , J. Chen , J. Wang

We investigate the electronic transport behavior of Fano-Anderson (FA) systems, consisting of a one-dimensional finite backbone chain and an attached side-group of varying length. The tight-binding model within the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

We propose a fast and versatile algorithm to calculate local and transport properties such as conductance, shot noise, local density of state or local currents in mesoscopic quantum systems. Within the non equilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Kyryl Kazymyrenko , Xavier Waintal

The effect of electron-electron scattering on the equilibrium properties of few-electron quantum dots is investigated by means of nonequilibrium Green's functions theory. The ground and equilibrium state is self-consistently computed from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 K. Balzer , M. Bonitz , R. van Leeuwen , N. E. Dahlen , A. Stan

We present a comprehensive study for common second order PDE's in two dimensional disk-like systems and show how their solution can be approximated by finding the Green function of an effective one dimensional system. After elaborating on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Alejandro Ferrero , Juan Pablo Mallarino

We develop in detail a new formalism [as a sequel to the work of T. Champel and S. Florens, Phys. Rev. B 75, 245326 (2007)] that is well-suited for treating quantum problems involving slowly-varying potentials at high magnetic fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 Thierry Champel , Serge Florens , Léonie Canet

In this work, we extend the meshfree generalized multiscale exponential integration framework introduced in Nikiforov et al. (2025) to the simulation of three-dimensional advection--diffusion problems in heterogeneous and high-contrast…

A self-consistent method for calculating electron transport through a molecular device is proposed. It is based on density functional theory electronic structure calculations under periodic boundary conditions and implemented in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

We have modeled transport properties of nanostructures using the Green's function method within the framework of the density-functional theory. The scheme is computationally demanding so that numerical methods have to be chosen carefully. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti J. Puska , Mikko H. Hakala , Adam S. Foster , Risto M. Nieminen

With the continued scaling of microelectronic devices along with the growing demand of high-speed wireless telecommunications technologies, there is increasing need for high-frequency device modeling techniques that accurately capture the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Timothy M. Philip , Matthew J. Gilbert

A stochastic method is described for estimating Green's functions (GF's), appropriate to linear advection-diffusion-reaction transport problems, evolving in arbitrary geometries. By allowing straightforward construction of approximate,…

Transport properties of molecular junctions are notoriously expensive to calculate with ab initio methods, primarily due to the semi-infinite electrodes. This has led to the introduction of different approximation schemes for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 C. J. O. Verzijl , J. S. Seldenthuis , J. M. Thijssen

The quantum dynamics of fermionic or bosonic many-body systems following external excitation can be successfully studied using two-time nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) or single-time reduced density matrix methods. Approximations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-12 Erik Schroedter , Jan-Philip Joost , Michael Bonitz

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

Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Noora Tuomisto , Riikka Vaananen , Martti J. Puska , Risto M. Nieminen

An efficient and compact approach to the inclusion of dissipative effects in Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulations of electronic systems is introduced. The algorithm is based on two well known methods in the literature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Jesse A. Vaitkus , Jared H. Cole

The Green's function method has applications in several fields in Physics, from classical differential equations to quantum many-body problems. In the quantum context, Green's functions are correlation functions, from which it is possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Mariana M. Odashima , Beatriz G. Prado , E. Vernek

The nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) approach is a versatile theoretical tool, which allows to describe the electronic structure, spectroscopy and dynamics of strongly correlated systems. The applicability of this method is, however,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-27 Michael Schüler , Martin Eckstein , Philipp Werner

We report density-functional theory (DFT), atomistic simulations of the non-equilibrium transport properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs). Results have been obtained within a self-consistent approach based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Latessa , A. Pecchia , A. Di Carlo

This contribution presents a novel Windowed Green Function (WGF) method for the solution of problems of wave propagation, scattering and radiation for structures which include open (dielectric) waveguides, waveguide junctions, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Oscar Bruno , Emmanuel Garza , Carlos Perez-Arancibia