Published September 25, 2006
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Journal article
Quantum transport from the perspective of quantum open systems
- 1. Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong (China)
- 2. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
- 3. State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083 (China)
- 4. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 (China)
Description
By viewing the non-equilibrium transport setup as a quantum open system, we propose a reduced-density-matrix based quantum transport formalism. At the level of self-consistent Born approximation, it can precisely account for the correlation between tunneling and the system internal many-body interaction, leading to certain novel behavior such as the non-equilibrium Kondo effect. It also opens a new way to construct time-dependent density functional theory for transport through large-scale complex systems
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2006.04.075;
- arXiv
- arXiv:cond-mat/0506477v3;
- PII
- S0375-9601(06)00651-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. A
- Journal Volume
- 357
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 449-453
- ISSN
- 0375-9601
- CODEN
- PYLAAG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38067135
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BORN APPROXIMATION; CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL METHOD; DENSITY MATRIX; EQUATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM; KONDO EFFECT; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TUNNEL EFFECT
- Descriptors DEC
- APPROXIMATIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; MATRICES; MECHANICS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; VARIATIONAL METHODS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.