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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…

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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…

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The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method with B\"uttiker probe scattering self-energies is assessed by comparing its predictions for the thermal boundary resistance with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For simplicity, the…

The problem of diffraction of a waveguide mode by a thin Neumann screen is considered. The incident mode is assumed to have frequency close to the cut-off. The problem is reduced to a propagation problem on a branched surface and then is…

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We simulate the electron transport across the Au(111)-pentacene interface using non-equilibrium Green's functions and density-functional theory (NEGF-DFT), and calculate the bias-dependent electron transmission. We find that the electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-13 Kurt Stokbro , Søren Smidstrup

Non-equilibrium Green's function theory for non-adiabatic effects in quantum transport [Kershaw and Kosov, J.Chem. Phys. 2017, 147, 224109 and J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 044121] is extended to the case of interacting electrons. We consider a…

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An electronic orbital of a dihedral angle of a molecular chain is introduced. A tight-binding Hamiltonian on the basis of the dihedral orbitals is defined. This yields the Green's function between two dihedral angles of the chain. It is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano

Electron transport through a diatomic molecular tunnel junction shows wave like interference phenomenon. By using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory, we have explicitly presented current and differential conductance…

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We propose a scheme for calculation of linear optical response of current-carrying molecular junctions for the case when electronic tunneling through the junction is much faster than characteristic time of external laser field. We discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-07 Michael Galperin , Sergei Tretiak

Selective excitation of a diffusive system's transmission eigenchannels enables manipulation of its internal energy distribution. The fluctuations and correlations of the eigenchannels' spatial profiles, however, remain unexplored so far.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-10-21 Nicholas Bender , Alexey Yamilov , Hasan Yilmaz , Hui Cao

Following our recent interest in metamaterial-based devices supporting resonant tunneling, energy squeezing and supercoupling through narrow waveguide channels and bends, here we analyze the fundamental physical mechanisms behind this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrea Alu , Mario G. Silveirinha , Nader Engheta

We propose a description of nonequilibrium systems via a simple protocol that combines exchange-correlation potentials from density functional theory with self-energies of many-body perturbation theory. The approach, aimed to avoid double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-15 M. Hopjan , D. Karlsson , S. Ydman , C. Verdozzi , C. -O. Almbladh

The many-body Green's function provides access to electronic properties beyond density functional theory level in ab inito calculations. In this manuscript, we propose a deep learning framework for predicting the finite-temperature Green's…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xinyang Dong , Emanuel Gull , Lei Wang

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the framework of the nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). The energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Massimiliano Esposito , Maicol A. Ochoa , Michael Galperin

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

We present first-principles quantum transport simulations of single-walled carbon nanotubes based on the NEGF method and including carrier-carrier interactions within the self-consistent GW approximation. Motivated by the characteristic…

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Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

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We derive expressions for the electromagnetic Green's function for a layered system using a transfer matrix technique. The expressions we arrive at makes it possible to study symmetry properties of the Green's function, such as reciprocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Peter Johansson

We present a method which uses density functional theory (DFT) to treat transport through a single molecule connected to two conducting leads for the weak and intermediate coupling. This case is not accessible to standard non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Fatemeh Mirjani , Joseph M. Thijssen

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…

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