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Driven by Moore's Law, the dimensions of transistors have been pushed down to the nanometer scale. Advanced quantum transport (QT) solvers are required to accurately simulate such nano-devices. The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF)…

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We describe the numerical modeling of current flow in graphene heterojunctions, within the Keldysh Landauer Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. By implementing a $k$-space approach along the transverse modes, coupled with…

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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 Hierarchical Schur Complement method (HSC), and the HSC-extension, have significantly accelerated the evaluation of the retarded Green's function, particularly the lesser Green's function, for two-dimensional nanoscale devices. In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Y. Zhao , U. Hetmaniuk , S. R. Patil , J. Qi , M. P. Anantram

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Wenjie Dou

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

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

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

In this work, the low rank approximation concept is extended to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to achieve a very efficient approximated algorithm for coherent and incoherent electron transport. This new method is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lang Zeng , Yu He , Michael Povolotsky , XiaoYan Liu , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

We propose a general framework for computing Retarded Green's Functions (RGFs) on quantum computers by recasting their evaluation as a problem of circuit differentiation. Our proposal is based on real-time evolution and specifically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Samuele Piccinelli , Francesco Tacchino , Ivano Tavernelli , Giuseppe Carleo

We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Within this formalism, one can treat, on the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 M. Ridley , N. W. Talarico , D. Karlsson , N. Lo Gullo , R. Tuovinen

We derive a method to efficiently compute the Green function of on arbitrary Hamiltonians defined on semi-infinite and periodic quasi-one-dimensional lattices. Computing the Green function is the backbone of quantum transport, electronic…

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We present the implementation of spinor quantum transport within the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) code TranSIESTA based on Density Functional Theory (DFT). First-principles methods play an essential role in molecular and material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Nils Wittemeier , Nick Papior , Mads Brandbyge , Zeila Zanolli , Pablo Ordejón

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

The single-particle Green's function (GF) of mesoscopic structures plays a central role in mesoscopic quantum transport. The recursive GF technique is a standard tool to compute this quantity numerically, but it lacks physical transparency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

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 propose an efficient procedure to obtain Green's functions by combining the shifted conjugate orthogonal conjugate gradient (shifted COCG) method with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method based on a real-space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Shigeru Iwase , Takeo Hoshi , Tomoya Ono

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…

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