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The nonstationary and steady-state transport through a mesoscopic sample connected to particle reservoirs via time-dependent barriers is investigated within the reduced density operator method. The generalized Master equation is solved via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We present a theoretical study of time-dependent transport via a quantum shuttle within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. An arbitrary voltage is applied to the tunnel junction and electrons in the leads are considered to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Muhammad Tahir , Angus MacKinnon

We apply the time-dependent current-density functional theory to the study of the relaxation of a closed many-electron system evolving from an non-equilibrium initial state. We show that the self-consistent unitary time evolution generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto D'Agosta , Giovanni Vignale

Given the time-evolution of an electron charge density, the local potential in Kohn-Sham time-dependent density functional theory (KS-TDDFT) can be modeled as a sum of instantaneous and dynamic contributions by assuming a certain form of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. J. Magyar

We explore the prospects to control by use of time-dependent fields quantum transport phenomena in nanoscale systems. In particular, we study for driven conductors the electron current and its noise properties. We review recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigmund Kohler , Jörg Lehmann , Peter Hänggi

We put forward a gauge-invariant theoretical framework for studying time-resolved thermoelectric transport in an arbitrary multiterminal electronic quantum system described by a non-interacting tight-binding model. The system is driven out…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Adel Kara Slimane , Phillipp Reck , Geneviève Fleury

We formulate a time-dependent density functional theory for the coupled dynamics of electrons and nuclei that goes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation. We prove that the time-dependent marginal nuclear probability density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Chen Li , Ryan Requist , E. K. U. Gross

We extend the Runge-Gross theorem for a very general class of Markovian and non-Markovian open quantum systems under weak assumptions about the nature of the bath and its coupling to the system. We show that for Kohn-Sham (KS)…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-09 Joel Yuen-Zhou , David G. Tempel , César Rodríguez-Rosario , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In the framework of density functional theory a formalism to describe electronic transport in the steady state is proposed which uses the density on the junction and the {\em steady current} as basic variables. We prove that, in a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth

We show that as an electron transfers between closed-shell molecular fragments at large separation, the exact correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory gradually develops a step and peak structure in the bonding…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Johanna I. Fuks , Peter Elliott , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

The simulation of quantum transport in a realistic, many-particle system is a nontrivial problem with no quantitatively satisfactory solution. While real-time propagation has the potential to overcome the shortcomings of conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Justin E. Elenewski , Yanxiang Zhao , Hanning Chen

We simulate the dynamics of a single-electron source, modeled as a quantum dot with on-site Coulomb interaction and tunnel coupling to an adjacent lead, in time-dependent density functional theory. Based on this system, we develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser , Nicole Helbig

A new formalism to describe steady-state electronic and thermal transport in the framework of density functional theory is presented. A one-to-one correspondence is proven between the three basic variables of the theory, i.e., the density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Nahual Sobrino , Florian Eich , Gianluca Stefanucci , Roberto D'Agosta , Stefan Kurth

We present a time-dependent study of electron transport through a strongly correlated quantum dot. The time-dependent current is obtained with the multiple-probe battery method, while adiabatic lattice density functional theory in the Bethe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 A. Pertsova , M. Stamenova , S. Sanvito

A first-principles approach to describe electron dynamics in open quantum systems driven far from equilibrium via external time-dependent stimuli is introduced. Within this approach, the driven Liouville von Neumann methodology is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Annabelle Oz , Abraham Nitzan , Oded Hod , Juan E. Peralta

This research demonstrates analytical time-dependent non-equilibrium green function (TD-NEGF) algorithms to investigate dynamical functionalities of quantum devices, especially for photon-assisted transports. Together with the lumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 I-Lin Ho

Based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF), we develop a quantum nonlinear theory to study time-dependent ac transport properties in the low frequency and nonlinear bias voltage regimes. By expanding NEGF in terms of time to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Fuming Xu , Jian Chen , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wan

Nanoscale electronic transport is of intense technological interest, with applications ranging from semiconducting devices and molecular junctions to charge migration in biological systems. Most explicit theoretical approaches treat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Justin E. Elenewski , Hanning Chen

By propagating the many-body Schr\"odinger equation, we determine the exact time-dependent Kohn-Sham potential for a system of strongly correlated electrons which undergo field-induced tunneling. Numerous features are entirely absent from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 Matthew J. P. Hodgson , James D. Ramsden , Jacob B. J. Chapman , Piers Lillystone , Rex W Godby

The time-dependent transport through a nano-scale device, consisting of a single spin-degenerate orbital with on-site Coulomb interaction, coupled to two leads, is investigated. Various gate and bias voltage time-dependences are considered.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 V. Vovchenko , D. Anchishkin , J. Azema , P. Lombardo , R. Hayn , A. -M. Daré