References

Graphene

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Carbon Nanotubes

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Semiconductor Nanostructures

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Spintronics

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Quantum Mechanics

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Condensed Matter Physics

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Advanced NEGF

NEGF Fundamentals

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NEGF + DFT

• A. Rocha, Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Electronic Transport at the Nanoscale (PhD thesis for SMEAGOL). [PDF]

• M. Koentopp, Density Functional Calculations of Nanoscale Conductance (PhD thesis). [PDF]

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NEGF + GW

• K. S. Thygesen and A. Rubio, Correlated electron transport in molecular junctions, Chapter 23 in Volume I of The Oxford Handbook on Nanoscience and Technology: Frontiers and Advances, Eds. A. V. Narlikar and Y. Y. Fu (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010). [PDF]

• C. D. Spataru, M. S. Hybertsen, S. G. Louie, and A. J. Millis, GW approach to Anderson model out of equilibrium: Coulomb blockade and false hysteresis in the I-V characteristics, Phys. Rev. B 79, 155110 (2009). [PDF]

NEGF + DMFT

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Computational NEGF

Self-energies

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• H. H. B. Sørensen, P. C. Hansen, D. E. Petersen and S. Skelboe, Krylov subspace method for evaluating the self-energy matrices in electron transport calculations, Phys. Rev. B 77, 155301 (2008). [PDF]

• I. Rungger and S. Sanvito, Algorithm for the construction of self-energies for electronic transport calculations based on singularity elimination and singular value decomposition, Phys. Rev. B 78, 035407 (2008). [PDF]

Recursive algorithms

• D. A. Areshkin and B. K. Nikolic, Electron density and transport in top-gated graphene nanoribbon devices: First-principles Green function algorithms for systems containing large number of atoms, arXiv:0909.4568 [PDF].

• A. Lassl, P. Schlagheck, and K. Richter, Effects of short-range interactions on transport through quantum point contacts: A numerical approach, Phys. Rev. B 75, 045346 (2007). [PDF]

• P. S. Drouvelis, P. Schmelcher, and P. Bastian, Parallel implementation of the recursive Green’s function method, Journal of Computational Physics 215, 741 (2006). [PDF]

• K. Kazymyrenko and X. Waintal, Knitting algorithm for calculating Green functions in quantum systems, Phys. Rev. B 77, 115119 (2008). [PDF]

• X. Wang, C. D. Spataru, M. S. Hybertsen, and A. J. Millis, Electronic correlation in nanoscale junctions: Comparison of the GW approximation to a numerically exact solution of the single-impurity Anderson model, Phys. Rev. B 77, 045119 (2008). [PDF]