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We aim to provide engineers with an introduction to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach, which provides a powerful conceptual tool and a practical analysis method to treat small electronic devices quantum mechanically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Anantram , M. S. Lundstrom , D. E. Nikonov

Nanoscale electronic transport is of intense technological interest, with applications ranging from semiconducting devices and molecular junctions to charge migration in biological systems. Most explicit theoretical approaches treat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Justin E. Elenewski , Hanning Chen

The continuous scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has led to device geometries where charged carriers are increasingly confined to ever smaller channel cross sections. This development is associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leonard Deuschle , Jiang Cao , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Anders Winka , Alexander Maeder , Nicolas Vetsch , Mathieu Luisier

We study the nonlinear elastic quantum electronic transport properties of nanoscopic devices using the Nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Green's function method allows us to expand the $I-V$ characteristics of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

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

Simulations of quantum transport in coherent conductors have evolved into mature techniques that are used in fields of physics ranging from electrical engineering to quantum nanoelectronics and material science. The most efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Mathieu Istas , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

The construction of the Hamiltonian matrix \textbf{H} is an essential, yet computationally expensive step in \textit{ab-initio} device simulations based on density-functional theory (DFT). In homogeneous structures, the fact that a unit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-03 Chen Hao Xia , Manasa Kaniselvan , Marko Mladenoivić , Mathieu Luisier

Transport phenomena play a key role in a variety of application domains, and efficient simulation of these dynamics remains an outstanding challenge. While quantum computers offer potential for significant speedups, existing algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Joseph Li , Gengzhi Yang , Jiaqi Leng , Xiaodi Wu

Designing nanoscale electronic devices such as the currently manufactured nanoribbon field-effect transistors (NRFETs) requires advanced modeling tools capturing all relevant quantum mechanical effects. State-of-the-art approaches combine…

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

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

Density functional theory (DFT) combined with non-equilibrium Greens functions (NEGF) is a powerful approach to model quantum transport under external bias potentials, at reasonable computational cost. In this work we present a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Christian S. Ahart , Sergey Chulkov , Clotilde S. Cucinotta

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

In this work a framework for quantum transport simulation from first principles is introduced, focusing on the coherent case. The model is based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism and maximally localized Wannier…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Christian Stieger , Mathieu Luisier

Quantum computers (QC) could harbor the potential to significantly advance materials simulations, particularly at the atomistic scale involving strongly correlated fermionic systems where an accurate description of quantum many-body effects…

The computational efficiency of a state of the art ab initio quantum transport (QT) solver, capable of revealing the coupled electro-thermal properties of atomically-resolved nano-transistors, has been improved by up to two orders of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Tal Ben-Nun , Guillermo Indalecio Fernández , Timo Schneider , Mathieu Luisier , Torsten Hoefler

We present an atomistic quantum transport simulation framework based on the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism to model impact ionization in semiconductor avalanche devices, with direct relevance to near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Burdine , Nischal Binod Gautam , Enrique P. Blair

In this work, we introduce the Federated Quantum-Train (QT) framework, which integrates the QT model into federated learning to leverage quantum computing for distributed learning systems. Quantum client nodes employ Quantum Neural Networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Chen-Yu Liu , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

State-of-the-art industrial semiconductor device modeling is based on highly efficient Drift-Diffusion (DD) models that include some quantum corrections for nanodevices. In contrast, latest academic quantum transport models are based on the…

One of the challenges in diagrammatic simulations of nonequilibrium phenomena in lattice models is the large memory demand for storing momentum-dependent two-time correlation functions. This problem can be overcome with the recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-23 Maksymilian Środa , Ken Inayoshi , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Philipp Werner