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A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

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Thermoelectric effects in a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs are explored using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation. Thermal transport is analyzed within a linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-18 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We investigate the interplay of quantum interference effects and electronic-vibrational coupling in electron transport through single-molecule junctions, employing a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Our findings show that inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 R. Härtle , M. Butzin , M. Thoss

Electron transport through a double quantum dot system is studied with taking into account electron-phonon interaction. The Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism is used to compute the current and transmission coefficient of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

We present a theoretical study of the quasiparticle and subgap conductance of generic $X/I_{sf}/S_{M}$ junction with a spin-filter barrier $I_{sf}$, where $X$ is either a normal $N$ or a ferromagnetic metal $F$ and $S_{M}$ is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

Recently, multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) have gained significant spotlight in the literature due to its high tunneling electro-resistance together with its non-volatility. In order to analyze such devices and to have insightful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Robert Andrawis , Kaushik Roy

The tunneling electroresistance (TER) for ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with BaTiO_{3} (BTO) and PbTiO}_{3} (PTO) barriers is calculated by combining the microscopic electronic structure of the barrier material with a macroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-17 N. F. Hinsche , M. Fechner , P. Bose , S. Ostanin , J. Henk , I. Mertig , P. Zahn

We study the nonlinear cotunneling current through a spinful quantum dot contacted by two superconducting leads. Applying a general nonequilibrium Green function formalism to an effective Kondo model, we study the rich variation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 B. M. Andersen , K. Flensberg , V. Koerting , J. Paaske

We discuss the quantum transport of electrons through a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator at zero temperature. By using the Green's function technique we calculate the transport properties of electrons through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M Tahir , A MacKinnon

Motivated by observation of very high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in Fe-MgO-Fe magnetic tunnel junction devices, we propose a theoretical model for these devices based on a single-band tight-binding approximation. An effort is made to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Tehseen Raza , Hassan Raza

We present finite bias transport measurements on a few-electron quantum dot. In the Coulomb blockade regime, strong signatures of inelastic cotunneling occur which can directly be assigned to excited states observed in the non-blockaded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Schleser , T. Ihn , E. Ruh , K. Ensslin , M. Tews , D. Pfannkuche , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

The tunneling splitting in biaxial ferrimagnetic particles at excited states with an explicit calculation of the prefactor of exponent is obtained in terms of periodic instantons which are responsible for tunneling at excited states and is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Yi-Hang Nie , Yan-Hong Jin , J. -Q Liang , F. -C Pu

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

Two-terminal spintronic devices remain challenging to model under realistic operating conditions, where the interplay of complex electronic structures, correlation effects and bias-driven non-equilibrium dynamics may significantly impact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-25 Declan Nell , Milos Radonjic , Ivan Rungger , Liviu Chioncel , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

We review our recent works on the quantum transport, mainly in topological semimetals and also in topological insulators, organized according to the strength of the magnetic field. At weak magnetic fields, we explain the negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu

In this talk I present a summary of recent work on tunnel junctions of a fractional quantum Hall fluid and an electron reservoir, a Fermi liquid. I consider first the case of a single point contact. This is a an exactly solvable problem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Fradkin

We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li

Coherent spin-dependent electronic transport is investigated in a molecular junction made of polymeric chain attached to ferromagnetic electrodes (Ni and Co, respectively). Molecular system is described by a simple Huckel model, while the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

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