Nonequilibrium steady state transport via the reduced density matrix operator

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Subotnik, Joseph E ^a,b   Hansen, Thorsten ^b   Ratner, Mark A ^b   Nitzan, Abraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON HAMILTONIANS; FREE ELECTRONS; LANDAUER FORMULAE; NON-EQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE; NONEQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS; REDUCED DENSITY MATRIXES; SIMPLE MODELS; STEADY STATE;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 65249190180     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3109898     Document Type: Article

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42. Work is currently in progress by Gidofalvi and Mazziotti for the excited state problem using the ACSE without any damping terms.