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Two-dimensional (2D) materials have wide applications in superconductors, quantum, and topological materials. However, their rational design is not well established, and currently less than 6,000 experimentally synthesized 2D materials have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Rongzhi Dong , Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) is an attractive method for accelerated quantum simulations of condensed matter due to its enhanced computational efficiency over standard Density Functional Theory approaches. However, DFTB models…

Extended Huckel theory (EHT) along with NEGF (Non-equilibrium Green's function formalism) has been used for modeling coherent transport through molecules. Incorporating dephasing has been proposed to theoretically reproduce experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Hassan Raza , Edwin C. Kan

Accurate determination of carrier transport properties in two-dimensional (2D) materials is critical for designing high-performance nano-electronic devices and quantum information platforms. While first-principles calculations effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Sathwik Bharadwaj , Ashwin Ramasubramaniam , L. R. Ram-Mohan

Since proposed in the 70s, the Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method has been recognized as a standard approach to quantum transport simulations. Although it achieves superiority in simulation accuracy, the tremendous computational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yingzhanghao Zhou , Xiang Chen , Peng Zhang , Jun Wang , Lei Wang , Hong Guo

Nanocomposites are promising candidates for the next generation of thermoelectric materials since they exhibit extremely low thermal conductivities as a result of phonon scattering on the boundaries of the various material phases. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Samuel Foster , Mischa Thesberg , Neophytos Neophytou

Based on recent advancements in using machine learning for classical density functional theory for systems with one-dimensional, planar inhomogeneities, we propose a machine learning model for application in two dimensions (2D) akin to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-22 Felix Glitsch , Jens Weimar , Martin Oettel

This research demonstrates analytical time-dependent non-equilibrium green function (TD-NEGF) algorithms to investigate dynamical functionalities of quantum devices, especially for photon-assisted transports. Together with the lumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 I-Lin Ho

We combine density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) with deep tensor neural networks (DTNN) to maximize the strengths of both approaches in predicting structural, energetic, and vibrational molecular properties. The DTNN is used to learn a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Martin Stöhr , Leonardo Medrano Sandonas , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Magnetic 2D materials have achieved significantly consideration owing to their encouraging applications. A variation of these 2D materials by occurrence of defects, by the transition-metal doping or adsorption or by the surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Zarah Khan , Saleem Ayaz Khan , Ayesha Zaheer , Syed Rizwan

Routine investigations of plasmonic phenomena at the quantum level present a formidable computational challenge due to the large system sizes and ultrafast timescales involved. This Feature Article highlights the use of density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Nikhil S. Chellam , Subhajyoti Chaudhuri , Abhisek Ghosal , Sajal K. Giri , George C. Schatz

We present novel methods implemented within the non-equilibrium Green function code (NEGF) transiesta based on density functional theory (DFT). Our flexible, next-generation DFT-NEGF code handles devices with one or multiple electrodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Nick Papior , Nicolás Lorente , Thomas Frederiksen , Alberto García , Mads Brandbyge

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method combined with ab initio calculations has been widely used to study charge transport in molecular junctions. However, the significant computational demands of high-resolution calculations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xuan Ji , Qiang Qi , Yueqi Chen , Chen Zhou , Xi Yu

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jingzhe Chen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

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…

The integration of density functional theory (DFT) with machine learning enables efficient \textit{ab initio} electronic structure calculations for ultra-large systems. In this work, we develop a transfer learning framework tailored for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Ting Bao , Ning Mao , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu , Adrian Del Maestro , Yang Zhang

The fundamental quantity governing the mechanical and thermodynamic properties of a crystalline solid is its electronic charge density. Yet, its direct use for the rapid prediction of materials properties remains challenging due to its high…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Kammampati Sai Kumar , Albert Linda , Shubham Kumar Maurya , Somnath Bhowmick

In this work, we first perform a systematic search for high-efficiency three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) thermoelectric materials by combining semiclassical transport techniques with density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Kamal Choudhary , Kevin Garrity , Francesca Tavazza

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Stadler , V. Geskin , J. Cornil

Materials data, especially those related to high-temperature properties, pose significant challenges for machine learning models due to extreme skewness, wide feature ranges, modality, and complex relationships. While traditional models…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-22 Vahid Attari , Raymundo Arroyave