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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 demonstrate an efficient nonequilibrium Green's function transport calculation procedure based on the real-space finite-difference method. The direct inversion of matrices for obtaining the self-energy terms of electrodes is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoya Ono , Yoshiyuki Egami , Kikuji Hirose

We present a unified transport theory of hybrid structures, in which a confined normal state ($N$) sample is sandwiched between two leads each of which can be either a ferromagnet ($F$) or a superconductor ($S$) via tunnel barriers. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Y. Zeng , Baowen Li , F. Claro

We aim to provide engineers with an introduction to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach, which provides a powerful conceptual tool and a practical analysis method to treat small electronic devices quantum mechanically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Anantram , M. S. Lundstrom , D. E. Nikonov

In this letter, we simulate electronic transport through a metal-ferroelectric-metal tunnel junction by use of a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. We show that quantum effects such as Friedel oscillations lead to deviations from the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Indlekofer , H. Kohlstedt

We develop a theory for the nonequilibrium coherent transport through a mesoscopic region, based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The theory requires the weak coupling between the central mesoscopic region and the multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Zhu , Tsung-han Lin , Qing-feng Sun

The nonequilibrium Green's function formalism provides a versatile and powerful framework for numerical studies of nonequilibrium phenomena in correlated many-body systems. For calculations starting from an equilibrium initial state, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Matthias Murray , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Philipp Werner

We study nonequilibrium transport in various open quantum systems whose systems and leads/baths are made of topological superconductors (TSs), semiconductors, and metals. Using quantum Langevin equations and Green's function method, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya , Dibyendu Roy

We derive a closed equation of motion for the one particle density matrix of a quantum system coupled to multiple baths using the Redfield master equation combined with a mean-field approximation. The steady-state solution may be found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zekun Zhuang , Jaime Merino , J. B. Marston

In the present work, we theoretically study the nonlinear regime of charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain reservoirs. The investigation is carried out using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Taisuke Ozaki , Kengo Nishio , Hiori Kino

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng , Zu-Quan Zhang , Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu

The Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a particularly powerful method to simulate the quantum transport properties of nanoscale devices such as transistors, photo-diodes, or memory cells, in the ballistic limit of…

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a one-dimensional complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain by directly solving for the steady state Green's functions in terms of small perturbations around their equilibrium values. The model exhibits…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Cristian Zanoci , Brian Swingle

We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport, and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite electrodes and with an applied voltage bias. Our method is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Mads Brandbyge , Jose-Luis Mozos , Pablo Ordejon , Jeremy Taylor , Kurt Stokbro

The standard equilibrium Green-Kubo and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) methods for computing thermal transport coefficients in solids typically require relatively long simulation times and large system sizes. To this end, we revisit…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-05 Zheyong Fan , Haikuan Dong , Ari Harju , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong

We investigate the role that nonlinearity in the interatomic potential has on the thermal conductance of a suspended nanoribbon when it is subjected to a longitudinal strain. To focus on the first cubic and quartic nonlinear terms of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Roberto Barreto , M. Florencia Carusela , Alejandro Monastra

Within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique on the real time contour, the Phi-functional method of Baym is reviewed and generalized to arbitrary non-equilibrium many-particle systems. The scheme may be closed at any desired order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu. B. Ivanov , J. Knoll , D. N. Voskresensky

Nonequilibrium Green's functions represent a promising tool for describing central nuclear reactions. Even at the single-particle level, though, the Green's functions contain more information that computers may handle in the foreseeable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Pawel Danielewicz , Arnau Rios , Brent Barker