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Efficient all-photonic quantum teleportation requires fast and deterministic sources of highly indistinguishable and entangled photons. Solid-state-based quantum emitters--notably semiconductor quantum dots--are a promising candidate for…

In this work a practical scheme is developed for the first-principles study of time-dependent quantum transport. The basic idea is to combine the transport master-equation with the well-known time-dependent density functional theory. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We present an ab initio approach to electronic transport in nanoscale systems which includes electronic correlations through the GW approximation. With respect to Landauer approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT), we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Andrea Ferretti , Didier Mayou , Valerio Olevano

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…

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Mean field theory is applied to nonequilibrium thermal energy transport in a model molecular junction. An approximation to the total time-dependent heat current in the junction is constructed using an ensemble of Ehrenfest trajectories, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Aaron Kelly

We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Within this formalism, one can treat, on the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 M. Ridley , N. W. Talarico , D. Karlsson , N. Lo Gullo , R. Tuovinen

We derive a closed equation of motion for the one particle density matrix of a quantum system coupled to multiple baths using the Redfield master equation combined with a mean-field approximation. The steady-state solution may be found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zekun Zhuang , Jaime Merino , J. B. Marston

This paper presents a rigorous optimization technique for wireless power transfer (WPT) systems enhanced by passive elements, ranging from simple reflectors and intermedi- ate relays all the way to general electromagnetic guiding and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Hans-Dieter Lang , Costas D. Sarris

We propose an Euler particle transport (EPT) approach for generative learning. The proposed approach is motivated by the problem of finding an optimal transport map from a reference distribution to a target distribution characterized by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yuan Gao , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Jin Liu , Xiliang Lu , Zhijian Yang

In this work we present a new method for basis set generation for electronic structure calculations of crystalline solids. This procedure is aimed at applications to Density Functional Theory (DFT). In this construction, Energy Window…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 Garry Goldstein

A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

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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…

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Radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology for future wireless systems. However, the low power transfer efficiency (PTE) is a critical challenge for practical implementations. One of the main inefficiency…

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We analyze wavepacket propagation in traveling wave tubes (TWTs) analytically and numerically. TWT design in essence comprises a pencil-like electron beam in vacuum interacting with an electromagnetic wave guided by a slow-wave structure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kasra Rouhi , Filippo Capolino , Alexander Figotin

In this colloquia review we discuss methods for thermal transport calculations for nanojunctions connected to two semi-infinite leads served as heat-baths. Our emphases are on fundamental quantum theory and atomistic models. We begin with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jian Wang , J. T. Lu

Based on density functional theory (DFT), we have developed algorithms and a program code to investigate the electron transport characteristics for a variety of nanometer scaled devices in the presence of an external bias voltage. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-14 Woo Youn Kim , Kwang S. Kim

The Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a particularly powerful method to simulate the quantum transport properties of nanoscale devices such as transistors, photo-diodes, or memory cells, in the ballistic limit of…

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

The simulation of quantum transport in a realistic, many-particle system is a nontrivial problem with no quantitatively satisfactory solution. While real-time propagation has the potential to overcome the shortcomings of conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Justin E. Elenewski , Yanxiang Zhao , Hanning Chen