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We provide a theory for scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy using a spin-polarized tip. It it shown that the tunneling conductance can be partitioned into three separate contributions, a background conductance which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-01 J. Fransson , O. Eriksson , A. V. Balatsky

We have developed an approach to calculate the single-particle Green function of a one-dimensional many-body system in the strongly localized limit at zero temperature. Our approach, based on the locator expansion, sums the contributions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 A. N. Somoza , M. Ortuño , V. Gasparian , M. Pino

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

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 have formulated the problem of electron transport through interacting quantum dot system in the framework of self-consistent perturbation theory, and show that the current conservation condition is guaranteed due to the gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We present and review an efficient method to calculate the retarded Green's function in multi-terminal nanostructures; which is needed in order to calculate the conductance through the system and the local particle densities within it. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Thorgilsson , G. Viktorsson , S. I. Erlingsson

The distinctive quasiparticle distribution existing under nonequilibrium in a superconductor-insulator-normal metal-insulator-superconductor (SINIS) mesoscopic line is proposed as a novel tool to control the supercurrent intensity in a long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-12 F. Giazotto , T. T. Heikkila , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio , J. P. Pekola , F. Beltram

Interest in Josephson junctions (JJs) has increased rapidly in recent years not only because of their use in qubits and other quantum devices but also due to the unique physics supported by the JJs. The advent of various novel quantum…

We study the heat transport due to phonons in nanomechanical structures using a phase space representation of non-equilibrium Green's functions. This representation accounts for the atomic degrees of freedom making it particularly suited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Marcone I. Sena-Junior , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We propose a theory that treats the current, noise, and, generally, the full current statistics of electron transfer in a mesoscopic system in a unified, simple and efficient way. The theory appears to be a circuit theory of $2\times 2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Nazarov , D. A. Bagrets

The non-relativistic current algebra approach is analyzed subject to its application to studying the distribution functions of many-particle systems at the temperature equilibrium and their stability properties. We show that the classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 N. N. Bogolubov , A. K. Prykarpatsky

Motivated by observation of very high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in Fe-MgO-Fe magnetic tunnel junction devices, we propose a theoretical model for these devices based on a single-band tight-binding approximation. An effort is made to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Tehseen Raza , Hassan Raza

We develop a nonperturbative dynamical theory (NDT) to calculate the retarded Green's function under nonequilibrium conditions. The NDT is particularly useful for treating nonequilibrium transport problems in systems with strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Jongbae Hong , Kyungchul Seo

We consider the transport of electrons passing through a mesoscopic device possessing internal dynamical quantum degrees of freedom. The mutual interaction between the system and the conduction electrons contributes to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-08 Christopher Birchall , Henning Schomerus

A method to implement the many-body Green function formalism in the GW approximation for infinite non periodic systems is presented. It is suitable to treat systems of known ``asymptotic'' properties which enter as boundary conditions,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-24 G. Fratesi , G. P. Brivio , L. G. Molinari

An approach to experimentally exploring electronic correlation functions in mesoscopic regimes is proposed. The idea is to monitor the mesoscopic fluctuations of a tunneling current flowing between the two layers of a semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julia S. Meyer , Alexander Altland , Martin Janssen

Recent experiments on mesoscopic normal-metal--superconductor heterostructures resolve properties on length scales and at low temperatures such that the temperature is below the Thouless energy $k_B T \le E_{Th}$. We describe the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang Belzig , Frank K. Wilhelm , Christoph Bruder , Gerd Schön , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study dynamic nonequilibrium electron charging phenomena in ballistic molecular devices at room temperature that compromise their response to bias and whose nature is evidently distinguishable from static Schottky-type potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

The conductance through a mesoscopic system of interacting electrons coupled to two adjacent leads is conventionally derived via the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function technique, in the limit of noninteracting leads [see Y. Meir…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-16 Yuan Li , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

In a transparent three-terminal Josephson junction, modeling nonequilibrium transport is numerically challenging, owing to the interplay between multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) thresholds and multipair resonances in the pair current. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-06 Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg , Benoît Douçot