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Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Noora Tuomisto , Riikka Vaananen , Martti J. Puska , Risto M. Nieminen

We consider electron transport in a model of a spinless superconductor described by a Kitaev type lattice Hamiltonian where the electron interactions are modelled through a superconducting pairing term. The superconductor is sandwiched…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar

Electron transport through a diatomic molecular tunnel junction shows wave like interference phenomenon. By using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory, we have explicitly presented current and differential conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Muhammad Imran

We revisit the problem of point-contact tunnel junctions involving one-dimensional superconductors and present a simple scheme for computing the full current-voltage characteristics within the framework of the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Bolech , T. Giamarchi

In this paper, we develop a nonequilibrium theory for transient electron transport dynamics in nanostructures based on the Feynman-Vernon influence functional approach. We extend our previous work on the exact master equation describing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-10 Jinshuang Jin , Matisse W. Y. Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , YiJing Yan

We develop a theory for the nonequilibrium coherent transport through a mesoscopic region, based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The theory requires the weak coupling between the central mesoscopic region and the multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Zhu , Tsung-han Lin , Qing-feng Sun

Electronic transport properties through some model quantum systems are re-visited. A simple tight-binding framework is given to describe the systems where all numerical calculations are made using the Green's function formalism. First, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Santanu K. Maiti

This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Zainab Gholami , Farhad Khoeini

We formulate and apply a low-energy transport theory for hybrid quantum devices containing junctions of topological superconductor (TS) wires and conventional normal (N) or superconducting (S) leads. We model TS wires as spinless $p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-04 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , A. Levy Yeyati

The steady-state electronic transport across periodically driven systems can be efficiently addressed using Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism. The time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's function theory then may be adapted for developing direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Oleksandr Balabanov

In this paper we study analytically a one-dimensional model for a semiconductor-metal junction. We study the formation of Tamm states and how they evolve when the semi-infinite semiconductor and metal are coupled together. The non-linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 N. M. R. Peres

Many-body transport has emerged as an efficient tool for understanding interaction effects in quantum materials with a multi-band electronic structure. This paper proposes a formula for the two-particle transmission coefficient for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-02 G. Tkachov

We present a generalized approach for computing electron conductance and I-V characteristics in multiterminal junctions from first-principles. Within the framework of Keldysh theory, electron transmission is evaluated employing an O(N)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Kamal K. Saha , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc , Vincent Meunier

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Albrecht , Bo Song , Alexander Schnurpfeil

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 study explores perpendicular transport through macroscopically inhomogeneous three-dimensional disordered conductors using mesoscopic methods (real-space Green function technique in a two-probe measuring geometry). The nanoscale samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic

An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Taisuke Ozaki , Kengo Nishio , Hiori Kino

We present a solution to the problem of AC current partition in a multi-probe mesoscopic conductor within the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. This allows the derivation of dynamic conductance which is appropriate for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We study a system of two non-interacting quantum wires with fermions of opposite chirality with a point contact junction at the origin across which tunneling can take place when an arbitrary time-dependent bias between the wires is applied.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Nikhil Danny Babu , Girish S. Setlur

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan