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A Hamiltonian approach is presented to study the two dimensional motion of damped electric charges in time dependent electromagnetic fields. The classical and the corresponding quantum mechanical problems are solved for particular cases…

We show that a tight-binding one-dimensional chain composed of interacting and non-interacting atomic sites can exhibit multiple mobility edges at different values of carrier energy in presence of external electric field. Within a mean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Santanu K. Maiti , Abraham Nitzan

We address the problem of heat transport in a chain of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, exposed to the influences of local environments of various nature, stressing the effects that the specific nature of the environment has on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 F. Nicacio , A. Ferraro , A. Imparato , M. Paternostro , F. L. Semião

The thermal conductivity of classical multi-component fluids is seemingly affected by the intrinsic arbitrariness in the definition of the atomic energies and it is ill-conditioned numerically, when evaluated from the Green-Kubo theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Riccardo Bertossa , Federico Grasselli , Loris Ercole , Stefano Baroni

Non-Hermitian systems have garnered significant attention due to the emergence of novel topology of complex spectra and skin modes. However, investigating transport phenomena in such systems faces obstacles stemming from the non-unitary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Qing Yan , Hailong Li , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

This review is devoted to the different techniques that have been developed to compute the phase-coherent transport properties of quantum nanoelectronic systems connected to electrodes. Beside a review of the different algorithms proposed…

Stationary electric transport in semiconductor nanostructures is studied by the method of nonequilibrium Green functions. In the case of sequential tunneling the results are compared with density matrix theory, providing almost identical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Andreas Wacker

This introduction to Green's functions is based on their role as kernels of differential equations. The procedures to construct solutions to a differential equation with an external source or with an inhomogeneity term are put together to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 Ursula Schröter

A quantum dot driven by two ac gate potentials oscillating with a phase lag may be regarded as a quantum engine, where energy is transported and dissipated in the form of heat. In this chapter we introduce a microscopic model for a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-29 L. Arrachea , M. Moskalets

We consider bosonic transport through one-dimensional spin systems. Transport is induced by coupling the spin systems to bosonic reservoirs kept at different temperatures. In the limit of weak-coupling between spins and bosons we apply the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-26 Gernot Schaller , Malte Vogl , Tobias Brandes

We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Within this formalism, one can treat, on the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 M. Ridley , N. W. Talarico , D. Karlsson , N. Lo Gullo , R. Tuovinen

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ahmet Ali Yanik , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta

We analyze quantum state of fermionic carriers in a transport channel attached to a particle reservoir. The analysis is done from the first principles by considering microscopic models of the reservoir and transport channel. In the case of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-27 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Dmitrii N. Maksimov

We analyze the current and the shot-noise of an electron interferometer made of the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator within the framework of non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism. We study in detail…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Bruno Rizzo , Liliana Arrachea , Michael Moskalets

The performance characteristics of a heat rectifier and a heat pump are studied in a non Markovian framework. The device is constructed from a molecule connected to a hot and cold reservoir. The heat baths are modelled using the stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Gil Katz , Ronnie Kosloff

Transport phenomena at the nanoscale are of interest due to the presence of both quantum and classical behavior. In this work, we demonstrate that quantum transport efficiency can be enhanced by a dynamical interplay of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 Patrick Rebentrost , Masoud Mohseni , Ivan Kassal , Seth Lloyd , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Electric fields, applied to insulators, cause transitions between valence and conduction bands, giving rise to current. Adjustments of the Hamiltonian can perfect the quality of the insulator, shutting down transitions whilst fully…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Rafael Hipolito , Paul M. Goldbart

We have investigated the transport characteristics of an electron pump consisting of an asymmetric double quantum dot at zero bias voltage which is subject to electromagnetic radiation. Depending on the energies of the intermediate states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. H. Stoof , Yu. V. Nazarov