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We consider electronic transport through a single-molecule junction where the molecule has a degenerate spectrum. Unlike previous transport models, and theories a rate-equations description is no longer possible, and the quantum coherences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximilian G. Schultz

We Have developed the concept of a new kind of single-electron transistor in which the transport of the electron through a quantum wire is controlled by charged quantum rings. Using a 2D harmonic potential as the transverse constraint, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Ali Hosseinzadeh , Shahpoor Saeidian

We develop a finite-element technique that allows one to evaluate correction of the order of $G_Q$ to various transport characteristics of arbitrary nanostructures. Common examples of such corrections are weak localization effect on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Campagnano , Yu. V. Nazarov

We present an ab initio approach to electronic transport in nanoscale systems which includes electronic correlations through the GW approximation. With respect to Landauer approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT), we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Andrea Ferretti , Didier Mayou , Valerio Olevano

The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zili Tang , Xiaoxin Xie , Guanwen Yao , Ligong Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Xing Zhang , Liu Fei

We consider quantum transport in a tight-binding model on the Bethe lattice of finite generation, which we expect to be the first step toward analyzing electronic transport in a light-harvesting molecule. We seek conditions under which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Naomichi Hatano , Hosho Katsura , Kohei Kawabata

We study electron transport properties of some molecular wires and a unconventional disordered thin film within the tight-binding framework using Green's function technique. We show that electron transport is significantly affected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

The continuous scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has led to device geometries where charged carriers are increasingly confined to ever smaller channel cross sections. This development is associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leonard Deuschle , Jiang Cao , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Anders Winka , Alexander Maeder , Nicolas Vetsch , Mathieu Luisier

Progress in manufacturing technology has allowed us to probe the behavior of devices on a smaller and faster scale than ever before. With increasing miniaturization, quantum effects come to dominate the transport properties of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Bracher , Manfred Kleber , Tobias Kramer

Destructive quantum interference in electron transport through molecules provides an unconventional route for suppressing electric current. In this work we introduce "interference vectors" for each interference and use them to characterize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-20 Panu Sam-ang , Matthew G. Reuter

Recent observations of destructive quantum interference in single-molecule junctions confirm the role played by quantum effects in the electronic conductance properties of molecular systems. We show here that the destructive interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Riccardo Frisenda , Vera Jansen , Ferdinand C. Grozema , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Nicolas Renaud

Quantum transport properties through some multilevel quantum dots sandwiched between two metallic contacts are investigated by the use of Green's function technique. Here we do parametric calculations, based on the tight-binding model, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

We develop a theoretical approach to quantum transport through single conjugated organic molecules that accurately accounts for all molecular excited and ground states via a semi-empirical many-body molecular Hamiltonian. We then calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-12-12 J. P. Bergfield , C. A. Stafford

The theoretical description of strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium presents several challenges and a number of open questions persist. In this paper we focus on nonlinear electronic transport through an interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Prasenjit Dutt , Jens Koch , J. E. Han , Karyn Le Hur

An analytic approach to the electron transport phenomena in molecular devices is presented. Analyzed devices are composed of organic molecules attached to the two semi-infinite electrodes. Molecular system is described within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 235428 (2011)]. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We propose an efficient protocol for digital quantum simulation of quantum chemistry problems and enhanced digital-analog quantum simulation of transport phenomena in biomolecules with superconducting circuits. Along these lines, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 L. García-Álvarez , U. Las Heras , A. Mezzacapo , M. Sanz , E. Solano , L. Lamata

In this article, we combine the modified electrostatics of a one-dimensional transistor structure with a quantum kinetic formulation of Coulomb interaction and nonequilibrium transport. A multi-configurational self-consistent Green's…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Indlekofer , J. Knoch , J. Appenzeller

The time-dependent transport through single-molecule magnets coupled to magnetic or non-magnetic electrodes is studied in the framework of the generalized master equation method. We investigate the transient regime induced by the periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 V. Moldoveanu , I. V. Dinu , B. Tanatar , C. P. Moca

We simulate the nonequilibrium dynamics of two generic many-body quantum impurity models by employing the recently developed iterative influence-functional path integral method [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 82}, 205323 (2010)]. This general approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Dvira Segal , Andrew J. Millis , David R. Reichman