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We report a first principles formalism and its numerical implementation for treating quantum transport properties of nanoelectronic devices with atomistic disorder. We developed a nonequilibrium vertex correction (NVC) theory to handle the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-21 Youqi Ke , Ke Xia , Hong Guo

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamil Walczak

The continued miniaturization of semiconductor devices, represented by Moore's law, has reached the atomic scale limit, requiring nanoscale quantum mechanical effects to be included in device simulations without empirical parameters. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Yong-Hoon Kim , Ryong-Gyu Lee

We have investigated the electron correlation effect on the electronic structures and transport properties of the iron-based superconductors using the density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). By considering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-19 Hyo Seok Ji , Geunsik Lee , Ji Hoon Shim

Using dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) methods we investigate the laning instability of a sheared colloidal suspension. The nonequilibrium ordering at the laning transition is driven by non-affine particle motion arising from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-03 Alberto Scacchi , Andrew J. Archer , Joseph M. Brader

Electronic transport is theoretically investigated in laterally confined semiconductor superlattices using the formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions. The transport properties are calculated for nanowire superlattices of varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Thomas Grange

By carrying out density functional theory (DFT) analysis within the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework, we investigate the quantum transport properties of Au-C60-Au molecular junctions from the first principles. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Sergueev , D. Roubtsov , H. Guo

The electron transport properties of a four-terminal molecular device are computed within the framework of density functional theory and non-equilibrium Keldysh theory. The additional two terminals lead to new properties, including a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

We investigate the coupled dynamics of concentration and charge in asymmetric 1:1 electrolytes, focusing on the interplay between diffusion asymmetry and external electric fields. Using Brownian dynamics simulations and linearized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Thê Hoang Ngoc Minh , Sleeba Varghese , Benjamin Rotenberg

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

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 non-equilibrium tunnel transport processes are considered in a square lattice of metallic nanogranules embedded into insulating host. Based on a simple model with three possible charging states (+,-, or 0) of a granule and three kinetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Pogorelov , J. F. Polido

This thesis investigates the magnetic, spectral, and transport properties of strongly correlated electronic systems, with a primary focus on the Hubbard model and its extensions relevant for real materials. Within the dynamical mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Joel Bobadilla

Quantum transport properties through some multilevel quantum dots sandwiched between two metallic contacts are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. Here we do parametric calculations, based on the tight-binding model, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

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

This thesis considers out-of-equilibrium dynamics of strongly interacting non-relativistic Fermi gases in several two and three dimensional geometries. The tools of second-order hydrodynamics and gauge-gravity duality will be utilized to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-30 William Lewis

Radiative heat transfer (RHT) at the nanoscale can vastly exceed the far-field blackbody limit due to the tunneling of evanescent waves, a phenomenon traditionally described by fluctuational electrodynamics (FE). While FE has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yahan Liu , Tao Zhu

We study the non-equilibrium (NE) fluctuation-dissipation (FD) relations in the context of quantum thermoelectric transport through a two-terminal nanodevice in the steady-state. The FD relations for the one- and two-particle correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-17 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

A new approximate computational framework is proposed for computing the non-equilibrium charge density in the context of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method for quantum mechanical transport problems. The framework consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Quan Chen , Jun Li , Chiyung Yam , Yu Zhang , Ngai Wong , Guanhua Chen

In this thesis we showed that Non-equilibrium Green's Function Perturbation Theory (NEGF) is really the overarching perturbative transport theory. This is shown in great detail by using NEGF as a starting point and developing in 3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Meng Lee Leek