Nonequilibrium density-matrix description of steady-state quantum transport

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dhar, Abhishek ^a   Saito, Keiji ^b   Hänggi, Peter ^c,d,e  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; DENSITY MATRIX; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; INTERELECTRODES; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-EQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE; PHONON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM SYSTEM; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; REDUCED-DENSITY MATRIX; STEADY-STATE DENSITY; TIGHT-BINDING HAMILTONIANS;

HEAT FLUX; PHONONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 84856641488     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011126     Document Type: Article

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