Dynamical Coulomb blockade and the derivative discontinuity of time-dependent density functional theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Kurth, S ^a,b,c   Stefanucci, G ^c,d   Khosravi, E ^c,e   Verdozzi, C ^c,f   Gross, E K U ^c,e  

^a CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility ETSF   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVE DISCONTINUITY; DYNAMICAL STATE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION POTENTIAL; NANOJUNCTIONS; PERIODIC SEQUENCE; STEADY STATE; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

COULOMB BLOCKADE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 77953235624     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.236801     Document Type: Article

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