Nonequilibrium Green’s function method for quantum thermal transport

Frontiers of Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 673-697

  Wang, Jian Sheng ^a   Agarwalla, Bijay Kumar ^a   Li, Huanan ^a   Thingna, Juzar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

contour ordered Green s function; nonequilibrium Green s function (NEGF); thermal transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915821495     PISSN: 20950462     EISSN: 20950470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-013-0340-x     Document Type: Review

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