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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 study heat transport in a one-dimensional inhomogeneous quantum spin 1/2 system. It consists of a finite-size XX spin chain coupled at its ends to semi-infinite XX and XY chains at different temperatures, which play the role of heat and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano , A. A. Aligia

In this review article, we present a non-equilibrium quantum transport theory for transient electron dynamics in nanodevices based on exact master equation derived with the path integral method in the fermion coherent-state representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pei-Yun Yang , Wei-Min Zhang

The interplay between spin transport and thermoelectricity offers several novel ways of generating, manipulating, and detecting nonequilibrium spin in a wide range of materials. Here we formulate a phenomenological model in the spirit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 B. Scharf , A. Matos-Abiague , I. Žutić , J. Fabian

In weakly interacting organic semiconductors, static and dynamic disorder often have an important impact on transport properties. Describing charge transport in these systems requires an approach that correctly takes structural and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Susanne Leitherer , Christof M. Jäger , Andreas Krause , Marcus Halik , Tim Clark , Michael Thoss

We study the nonequlibrium transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to Luttinger liquids (LL). A general current expression is derived by using nonequilibrium Green function method. Then a special case of the dot with only a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yi-feng Yang , Tsung-han Lin

We consider the interaction between electrons and molecular vibrations in the context of electronic transport in nanoscale devices. We present a method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions to calculate both equilibrium and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 L. K. Dash , H. Ness , R. W. Godby

Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Lokanath Patra , Mayur Pratap Singh , Satish Kumar

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

We study non-equilibrium quantum transport of spin, heat, and charge in diffusive heterostructures including both superconductors and materials with spin-dependent fields, such as textured ferromagnets and spin-orbit coupled materials.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-10 Tom Doekle Vethaak , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

Understanding non-equilibrium spin transport through 2D ferromagnets is a theoretical challenge, as correlations produce a complex electronic structure with coexisting itinerant and localized electrons. We have developed a fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

The non-equilibrium tunnel transport processes are considered in a square lattice of metallic nanogranules embedded into insulating host. Based on a simple model with three possible charging states (+,-, or 0) of a granule and three kinetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Pogorelov , J. F. Polido

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We introduce a novel approach to model heat transport in solids, based on the Green-Kubo theory of linear response. It naturally bridges the Boltzmann kinetic approach in crystals and the Allen-Feldman model in glasses, leveraging…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 Leyla Isaeva , Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Davide Donadio , Stefano Baroni

We analyze the equilibration process between two either fermionic or bosonic reservoirs containing ultracold atoms with a fixed total number of particles that are weakly connected via a few-level quantum system. We allow for both the…

Understanding time-resolved quantum transport is crucial for developing next-generation quantum technologies, particularly in nano- and molecular junctions subjected to time-dependent perturbations. Traditional steady-state approaches to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 R. Tuovinen , Y. Pavlyukh

We investigate the transport characteristics of monolayer graphene p-n junctions by means of the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. It is shown that thanks to the high interband tunneling of chiral fermions and to a finite bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , A. Bournel , P. Dollfus

Charge and heat transport through a single molecule tunnel-coupled to external normal electrodes have been studied. The molecule with sufficiently strong interaction between lectrons and vibrational internal degrees of freedom can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Karol Izydor Wysokinski

In this paper, we study transport features of a one-dimensional beam-plasma system in the presence of multiple resonances. As a model description of the general problem of a warm energetic particle beam, we assume $n$ cold supra-thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Nakia Carlevaro , Matteo V. Falessi , Giovanni Montani , Fulvio Zonca

We introduce diagrammatic technique for Hubbard nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The formulation is an extension of equilibrium considerations for strongly correlated lattice models to description of current carrying molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Feng Chen , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin