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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

Quasiparticle interference imaging (QPI) provides a route to characterize electronic structure from real space images acquired using scanning tunneling microscopy. It emerges due to scattering of electrons at defects in the material. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-12 Peter Wahl , Luke C. Rhodes , Carolina A. Marques

We extend the formalism of the thermodynamic two-time Green's functions to nonextensive quantum statistical mechanics. Working in the optimal Lagrangian multipliers representation, the $q$-spectral properties and the methods for a direct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-07 A. Cavallo , F. Cosenza , L. De Cesare

We write the Green function of the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice in a piecewise form covering the entire real frequency axis. Each piece is a single integral involving modified Bessel functions of the first and second kinds. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 Yen Lee Loh

Computationally inexpensive approximations describing electron-phonon scattering in molecular-scale conductors are derived from the non-equilibrium Green's function method. The accuracy is demonstrated with a first principles calculation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Magnus Paulsson , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

Using the recursive Green's function technique, we study the coherent electron conductance of a quantum point contact in the presence of a scanning probe microscope tip. Images of the coherent fringe inside a quantum point contact for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guang-Ping He , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

Research in semiconductor physics has advanced to the study of two-dimensional (2D) materials where the surface controls electronic transport. A scanning probe microscope (SPM) is an ideal tool to image electronic motion in these devices by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Sagar Bhandari , Robert M. Westervelt

We show that using the properties of the photon Green's function one can successfully describe the propagation of arbitrary nonclassical optical radiation through structured materials. In contrast to the similar input-output approach, our…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-31 F. Richter , D. Yu. Vasylyev , K. Henneberger

We present an efficient implementation of a surface Green's-function method for atomistic modeling of surfaces within the framework of density functional theory using a pseudopotential localized basis set approach. In this method, the…

The magnon Hedin's equations are derived via the Schwinger functional derivative technique, and the resulting self-consistent Green's function method is used to calculate ground state spin patterns and magnetic structure factors for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Zhen Zhao , Claudio Verdozzi , Ferdi Aryasetiawan

We present and review an efficient method to calculate the retarded Green's function in multi-terminal nanostructures; which is needed in order to calculate the conductance through the system and the local particle densities within it. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Thorgilsson , G. Viktorsson , S. I. Erlingsson

We present a real-time second-order Green's function (GF) method for computing excited states in molecules and nanostructures, with a computational scaling of $O(N_{\rm e}^3$), where $N_{\rm e}$ is the number of electrons. The cubic scaling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Leopoldo Mejía , Jia Yin , David R. Reichman , Roi Baer , Chao Yang , Eran Rabani

The electromagnetic Green's function is a crucial ingredient for the theoretical study of modern photonic quantum devices, but is often difficult or even impossible to calculate directly. We present a numerically efficient framework for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Robert Meiners Fuchs , Juanjuan Ren , Stephen Hughes , Marten Richter

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

Images of electron flow through a two-dimensional electron gas from a quantum point contact (QPC) can be obtained at liquid He temperatures using scanning probe microscopy (SPM). A negatively charged SPM tip depletes the electron gas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , M. A. Topinka , R. M. Westervelt , S. E. J. Shaw , E. J. Heller , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

The basic mathematical properties of Green's functions used in statistical mechanics as well as the equations defining these functions and the techniques of solving these equations are reviewed. An approach is presented called the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Yukalov

Using a path integral approach and bosonization, we calculate the low energy asymptotics of the one particle Green's function for a ``magnetically incoherent'' one dimensional strongly interacting electron gas at temperatures much greater…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Leon Balents

We propose a first-principles method of efficiently evaluating electron-transport properties of very long systems. Implementing the recursive Green's function method and the shifted conjugate gradient method in the transport simulator based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yoshiyuki Egami , Shigeru Tsukamoto , Tomoya Ono

The integral equation method is widely used in numerical simulations of 2D/3D acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems, which needs a large number of values of the Green's functions. A significant topic is the scattering problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Bo Zhang , Ruming Zhang

In this article we derive the lattice Green Functions (GFs) of graphene using a Tight Binding Hamiltonian incorporating both first and second nearest neighbour hoppings and allowing for a non-orthogonal electron wavefunction overlap. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira