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The Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics is a generalization of Maxwell theory with reduced gauge invariance. It allows to couple the electromagnetic field to a charge which is not locally conserved, and has an additional degree of freedom, the…

We present an efficient implemention of a non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method for self-consistent calculations of electron transport and forces in nanostructured materials. The electronic structure is described at the level of…

Within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique on the real time contour, the Phi-functional method of Baym is reviewed and generalized to arbitrary non-equilibrium many-particle systems. The scheme may be closed at any desired order…

The extraordinary quantum properties of nonequilibrium systems governed by dissipative dynamics have become a focal point in contemporary scientific inquiry. The Nonequilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) theory provides a versatile method for…

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…

The electric conductance of a molecular junction is calculated by recasting the Keldysh formalism in Liouville space. Dyson equations for nonequilibrium many body Green's functions (NEGF) are derived directly in real (physical) time. The…

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

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…

We employ Non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) to describe the real-time dynamics of an adsorbate-surface model system exposed to ultrafast laser pulses. For a finite number of electronic orbitals, the system is solved exactly and…

The classical Maxwell-Dirac and Maxwell-Klein-Gordon theories admit solutions of the field equations where the corresponding electric current vanishes in the causal complement of some bounded region of Minkowski space. This poses the…

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…

Non-equilibrium Greens function techniques (NEGF) combined with Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations have become a standard tool for the description of electron transport through single molecule nano-junctions in the coherent…

The nonequilibrium description of quantum systems requires, for more than two or three particles, the use of a reduced description to be numerically tractable. Two possible approaches are based on either reduced density matrices or…

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 non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach offers a practical framework for simulating various phenomena in mesoscopic systems. As the dimension of electronic devices shrinks to just a few nanometers, the need for new…

Nonequilibrium Greens function techniques (NEGF) combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become a standard tool for the description of electron transport through single molecule nanojunctions in the coherent…

A generalized Langevin equation with quantum baths (QMD) for thermal transport is derived with the help of nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulation. The exact relationship of the quasi-classical approximation to NEGF is…

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Using the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, we propose a microscopic theory for near-field radiative heat transfer between metal plates. Tight-binding models for the electrons are coupled to the electromagnetic field…

A formulation of quantum electrodynamics is proposed, in which the local law of conservation of electric charge serves as the source of the gauge condition. The equations of motion of the gauge variable and the density of the charge…