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Electronic structure and transport characteristics of coupled CdS and ZnSe quantum dots are studied using density functional theory and non equilibrium Greens function method respectively. Our investigations show that in these novel coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Simon Liebing , Torsten Hahn , Jens Kortus , Bidisa Das , Arup Chakraborty , Indra Dasgupta

We present a detailed treatment of the nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal transport due to atomic vibrations in nanostructures. Some of the key equations, such as self-energy and conductance with nonlinear effect, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Jian-Sheng Wang , Nan Zeng , Jian Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

The key features of density-functional theory (DFT) within a minimalistic implementation of quantum electrodynamics are demonstrated, thus allowing to study elementary properties of quantum-electrodynamical density-functional theory…

Two (so-called left and right) variants of N-centered ensemble density-functional theory (DFT) [Senjean and Fromager, Phys. Rev. A 98, 022513 (2018)] are presented. Unlike the original formulation of the theory, these variants allow for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Bruno Senjean , Emmanuel Fromager

We have formulated and implemented a fully charge-self-consistent density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory methodology which enables an efficient calculation of the total energy of realistic correlated electron systems.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Hyowon Park , Andrew J. Millis , Chris A. Marianetti

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

Based on a microcanonical picture that maps the steady-state quantum transport process to a drain-to-source excitation, we develop a constrained-search density functional formalism for finite-bias quantum transport calculations. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Han Seul Kim , Yong-Hoon Kim

We demonstrate the existence of different density-density functionals designed to retain selected properties of the many-body ground state in a non-interacting solution starting from the standard density functional theory ground state. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 F. A. Reboredo , P. R. C. Kent

We prove that the electron density function of a real physical system can be uniquely determined by its values on any finite subsystem. This establishes the existence of a rigorous density-functional theory for any open electronic system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , GuanHua Chen

We study the effect of electron-vibron interactions on the inelastic transport properties of single-molecule nanojunctions. We use the non-equilibrium Green's functions technique and a model Hamiltonian to calculate the effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 L. K. Dash , H. Ness , R. W. Godby

Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the electronic band structure. The KS-DFT method leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-20 Fabien Tran , Jan Doumont , Leila Kalantari , Ahmad W. Huran , Miguel A. L. Marques , Peter Blaha

Static electric response properties of atoms and molecules are reported within the real-space Cartesian grid implementation of pseudopotential Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). A detailed systematic investigation is made for a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Tanmay Mandal , Abhisek Ghosal , Amlan K. Roy

We have performed a thorough computational study to assess the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) methods in describing the interactions of CO2 with model alkali-earth-metal (AEM, Ca and Li) decorated carbon structures, namely…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-15 Claudio Cazorla , Stephen A. Shevlin

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

This review deals with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method applied to the problems of energy transport due to atomic vibrations (phonons), primarily for small junction systems. We present a pedagogical introduction to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Huanan Li , Juzar Thingna

In weakly interacting organic semiconductors, static and dynamic disorder often have an important impact on transport properties. Describing charge transport in these systems requires an approach that correctly takes structural and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Susanne Leitherer , Christof M. Jäger , Andreas Krause , Marcus Halik , Tim Clark , Michael Thoss

We present a real-space method for first-principles nano-scale electronic transport calculations. We use the non-equilibrium Green's function method with density functional theory and implement absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs, also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Baruch Feldman , Tamar Seideman , Oded Hod , Leeor Kronik

Multideterminant calculations have been performed on model systems to emphasize the role of many-body effects in the general description of charge quantization experiments. We show numerically and derive analytically that a closed-shell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Geskin , R. Stadler , J. Cornil

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) method is a well-established approach for treating nuclei quantum mechanically in molecular systems beyond the usual Born-Oppenheimer approximation. In this work, we present a strategy to implement the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Jianhang Xu , Ruiyi Zhou , Zhen Tao , Christopher Malbon , Volker Blum , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer , Yosuke Kanai