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Results are presented for the quench dynamics of a clean and interacting electron system, where the quench involves varying the strength of the attractive interaction along arbitrary quench trajectories. The initial state before the quench…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-04 Yonah Lemonik , Aditi Mitra

We present consistent results for molecular conduction using two central-complementary approaches: the non-equilibrium Green's function technique and the quantum master equation method. Our model describes electronic conduction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

We study diffusive magnetic Josephson junctions with four superconducting terminals in the weak proximity limit where the leads are arranged in cross form. Employing the linearized Keldysh-Usadel technique, the anomalous Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-23 Mohammad Alidoust , Granville Sewell , Jacob Linder

After the discovery of GMR by Fert and Gr\"unberg, electronics had a breakthrough with the birth of a new branch called spintronics. This discipline, while still young, exploits the spin of electrons. Most quantum devices exploiting this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Yann Claveau

We present a real-space method for first-principles nano-scale electronic transport calculations. We use the non-equilibrium Green's function method with density functional theory and implement absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs, also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Baruch Feldman , Tamar Seideman , Oded Hod , Leeor Kronik

We propose a highly efficient numerical method to describe inhomogeneous superconductivity by using the kernel polynomial method in order to calculate the Green's functions of a superconductor. Broken translational invariance of any type…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-13 L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters , M. Berciu

We study the current-voltage characteristics of a superconducting junction with particle losses at the contacts. We adopt the Keldysh formalism to compute the steady-state current for varying transmission of the contact. In the low…

We study transport properties for a quantum dot coupled to normal leads with a pseudogap density of states at zero temperature, using the second-order perturbation theory based on the Keldysh formalism. We clarify that the hybridization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Bunpei Hara , Akihisa Koga , Tomosuke Aono

Quantitative description of charge transport across tunneling and break-junction devices with novel superconductors encounters some problems not present, or not as severe for traditional superconducting materials. In this work, we explain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-11 E. Zhitlukhina , I. Devyatov , O. Egorov , M. Belogolovskii , P. Seidel

We consider a two-dimensional electron system subjected to a short-ranged nonmagnetic disorder potential, Coulomb interactions, and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The path-integral approach incorporated within the Keldysh formalism is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

We compute the current and the noise power matrix in a quantum dot connected to two metallic reservoirs by using the Keldysh field theory approach, a non-equilibrium quantum field theory language in the functional integral formalism. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Marco Uguccioni , Luca Dell'Anna

This paper gives an introduction to the Keldysh formalism, with emphasis on its usefulness in time-dependent density functional theory. In the first part we introduce the Keldysh contour and the one-particle Green function defined on this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert van Leeuwen , Nils Erik Dahlen , Gianluca Stefanucci , Carl-Olof Almbladh , Ulf von Barth

The transport and fluctuation properties of organic molecules ordered parallel between two Au contact leads are investigated by the method of surface Green function. From first-principles simulation the relevant hopping parameters are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-03 K. Morawetz S. Gemming , R. Luschtinetz , T. Kunze , P. Lipavský , L. M. Eng , G. Seifert , V. Pankoke , P. Milde

We theoretically investigate the electric transport in the pseudogap state of High-Tc cuprates. Starting from the repulsive Hubbard model, we perform the microscopic calculation to describe the pseudogap phenomena which are induced by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Youichi Yanase

One of the most important problems in nanoelectronic device theory is to estimate how fast or how slow a quantum device can turn on/off a current. For an arbitrary noninteracting phase-coherent device scattering region connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Joseph Maciejko , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wacker , A. -P. Jauho , S. Rott , A. Markus , P. Binder , G. H. D"ohler

A local-orbital based ab initio approach to obtain the Green function for large heterogeneous systems is developed. First a Green function formalism is introduced based on exact diagonalization. Then the self energy is constructed from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Albrecht , A. Schnurpfeil , G. Cuniberti

Electron gas in a wire connected to two terminals with potential drop is studied with the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. Recent studies, where the current is enforced to flow with a Lagrange-multiplier term, demonstrated that the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoshihiro Nishiyama

We discuss intrinsic mechanisms of nonequilibrium excess noise in superconducting devices and transition edge sensors. In particular, we present an overview of fluctuation-driven contributions to the current noise in the vicinity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Juhun Kwak , Emil Pellett , Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

We investigate the topological phases in a coupled one-dimensional p-wave superconducting Fibonacci quasicrystal modeled by the quasiperiodic Kitaev chain. Recent studies have shown that the coupled system can host topological edge modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Koki Mizuno