Nonequilibrium, steady-state electron transport with N -representable density matrices from the anti-Hermitian contracted Schrödinger equation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Rothman, Adam E ^a   Mazziotti, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATH MIXING; DENSITY MATRIX; DINGER EQUATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY STATE; EXPLICIT TREATMENTS; HERMITIANS; LIOUVILLE EQUATION; MODEL HAMILTONIANS; MOLECULAR CONDUCTIVITY; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; N-REPRESENTABILITY; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; PAULI PRINCIPLE; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; REDUCED-DENSITY MATRIX; STEADY-STATE BEHAVIORS;

MOLECULES; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77949639986     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3320817     Document Type: Article

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