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We present exact analytical results for the differential conductance of a finite Kitaev chain in an N-S-N configuration, where the topological superconductor is contacted on both sides with normal leads. Our results are obtained with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Nico Leumer , Magdalena Marganska , Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Milena Grifoni

Transport properties of 2D materials especially close to their boundary has received much attention after the successful fabrication of graphene and other fascinating materials afterwards. While most previous work is devoted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Fanbing Xia , Jian Wang

We investigate the dynamics of a phonon-mediated superconductor driven out of equilibrium. The electronic hopping amplitude is ramped down in time, resulting in an increased electronic density of states. The dynamics of the coupled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-12 M. A. Sentef , A. F. Kemper , A. Georges , C. Kollath

With the aid of the Keldysh technique we develop a microscopic theory of non-local electron transport in three-terminal NSN structures consisting of a chaotic superconducting quantum dot attached to one superconducting and two normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-06 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

Current noise provides useful information on correlations important for transport properties of mesoscopic systems. Of particular interest, both experimentally and theoretically, are heterostructures of normal metals and superconductors. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 W. Belzig , J. Boerlin , C. Bruder , Yu. V. Nazarov

We investigate the non-equilibrium transport properties of a disordered molecular nanowire. The nanowire is regarded as a quasi-one-dimensional organic crystal composed of self-assembled molecules. One orbital and a single random energy are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 P. Thiessen , E. Diaz , R. A. Roemer , F. Dominguez-Adame

We consider an Anderson impurity (A) weakly connected to a superconducting electrode (S) on one side and a superconducting or a normal metal electrode (N) on the other side. A general path integral formalism is developed and the response of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yshai Avishai , Anatoly Golub , Andrei D. Zaikin

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

We investigate the nonstationary electronic transport in noninteracting nanostructures driven by a finite bias and time-dependent signals applied at their contacts to the leads. The systems are modelled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

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

We study the interacting quantum dot coupled to the normal and superconducting leads by means of a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method in the Keldysh-Nambu formalism. Deducing the steady current through the quantum dot under a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-10 Akihisa Koga

Building on the many existing algorithms for calculating the DC transport properties of quantum tight-binding models, we develop a systematic approach that expresses finite frequency observables in terms of the stationary Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Oleksii Shevtsov , Xavier Waintal

We study the transport properties of a voltage-biased Josephson junction where the BCS superconducting leads are coupled via the edges of a quantum Hall sample. In this scenario, an out of equilibrium Josephson current develops, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We employ the Keldysh formalism in the quasiclassical approximation to study transport in a diffusive superconductor. The resulting 4x4 transport equations describe the flow of charge and energy as well as the corresponding flow of spin and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Petter Morten , Arne Brataas , Wolfgang Belzig

We apply the Keldysh formalism in order to derive a current formula easy to use for a system with many sites, one of which is interacting. The main technical challenge is to deal with the lesser Green function. It turns out that, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Dinu , M. Tolea , A. Aldea

The theoretical investigation of charge (and spin) transport at nanometer length scales requires the use of advanced and powerful techniques able to deal with the dynamical properties of the relevant physical systems, to explicitly include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Ryndyk , R. Gutierrez , B. Song , G. Cuniberti

Electron transport characteristics are investigated through some molecular chains attached to two non-superconducting electrodes by the use of Green's function method. Here we do parametric calculations based on the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-31 Santanu K. Maiti

Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function formalism, we investigate the local, non-equilibrium charge transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). In particular, we demonstrate that the spatial current patterns associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Joel Mabillard , Tankut Can , Dirk K. Morr

Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function method is utilized to study theoretically the spin polarized transport through a graphene spin valve irradiated by a monochromatic laser field. It is found that the bias dependence of the differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

I present a review of the theory and basic equations for charge transport in superconducting alloys starting from the Keldysh formulation of the quasiclassical transport equations developed by Eilenberger, Larkin and Ovchinnikov and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-30 J. A. Sauls