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It is well established that near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) can exceed Planck's blackbody limit1 by orders of magnitude owing to the tunneling of evanescent electromagnetic frustrated and surface modes2-4, as has been…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Lei Tang , Lívia M. Corrêa , Mathieu Francoeur , Chris Dames

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-01 ChiYung Yam , Xiao Zheng , GuanHua Chen , Yong Wang , Thomas Frauenheim , Thomas A. Niehaus

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

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

A formalism for incorporating electron-phonon scattering into the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework that is applicable to planar MOSFETs is presented. Restructuring the NEGF equations in terms of approximate summation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Himadri S. Pal , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Raseong Kim , Mark S. Lundstrom

This chapter of "The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology: Frontiers and Advances" reviews nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) approach to modeling spin current generation, transport, and detection in semiconductor nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

Non-equilibrium Green's Function (NGF) method is a powerful tool for studying the evolution of quantum many-body systems. Different types of correlations can be systematically incorporated within the formalism. The time evolution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 M. H. Mahzoon , P. Danielewicz , A. Rios

We consider heat transport across a harmonic chain of charged particles, with transverse degrees of freedom, in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. For an open chain connected to heat baths at the two ends we obtain the nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-22 Junaid Bhat , Gaëtan Cane , Cédric Bernardin , Abhishek Dhar

The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zili Tang , Xiaoxin Xie , Guanwen Yao , Ligong Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Xing Zhang , Liu Fei

We set up a general microscopic theory for the transfer of energy, momentum, and angular momentum mediated by photons. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we propose a unified Meir-Wingreen formalism for the energy emitted,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu , Zu-Quan Zhang , Jian-Sheng Wang

We study heat transfers in a single level quantum dot strongly coupled to fermionic reservoirs and subjected to a time-dependent protocol modulating the dot energy as well as the dot-reservoir coupling strength. The dynamics is described…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

The main goal of this paper is to put on solid mathematical grounds the so-called Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) transport formalism for open systems. In particular, we derive the Jauho-Meir-Wingreen formula for the time-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 H. D. Cornean , V. Moldoveanu , C. -A. Pillet

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…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Covito , E. Perfetto , A. Rubio , G. Stefanucci

The transport and gain properties of quantum cascade (QC) structures are investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) theory which includes quantum effects beyond a Boltzmann transport description. In the NGF theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -C. Lee , A. Wacker

Non equilibrium Green's function methods are regularly used to calculate current and charge densities in nanoscale (both molecular and semiconductor) conductors under bias. This method is mainly used for ballistic conduction but may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Paulsson

Non-equilibrium Green's function theory for non-adiabatic effects in quantum transport [Kershaw and Kosov, J.Chem. Phys. 2017, 147, 224109 and J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 044121] is extended to the case of interacting electrons. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

The understanding of heat transport in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is an important research frontier, which is crucial for implementing novel thermodynamic devices, such as heat engines and refrigerators. The convection, conduction, and…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Cheng Yang , Xinrui Wei , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many interacting objects. This article reviews recent progress on the topic of radiative heat transfer in many-body systems consisting of thermal emitters…

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

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 H. Ness , L. K. Dash