A Liouville equation for systems which exchange particles with reservoirs: Transport through a nanodevice

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Ovchinnikov, Igor V ^a   Neuhauser, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

LIOUVILLE EQUATION; NANODEVICES; PARTICLE EXCHANGE; TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; KINETICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 22944483830     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1828037     Document Type: Article

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