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Developments in many-body theory of quantum transport and spectroscopy with non-equilibrium Green's functions and time-dependent density functional theory

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Authors
Uimonen, Anna-Maija
Date
2015
Discipline
Fysiikka

 
The problem of quantum dynamics in open systems has gained attention in recent decades and not the least due to the advances made in quantum transport in molecular systems. The main motivation behind quantum transport and molecular electronics is the futuristic goal to be able at some point to replace, or to complement, the silicon-based technology and to make the electronic devices faster. On a fundamental level, one has to deal with time-dependent processes where electron-electron or electron- phonon interactions are of great importance, and they can cause profound quantitative and qualitative changes on the physical and dynamical properties of electronic systems compared to the non-interacting case. Most of the studies of quantum transport have been focused on the steady-state description while neglecting the short-time dynamics. However, the dynamical effects are of great importance since fast- switching processes play a pivotal role in the operation of future devices. We studied the problem of time-dependent electron transport through the Anderson impurity model by using many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) together with Keldysh Green’s functions as well as with time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). These methods were compared with numerically exact time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group (tDMRG) method. We found that the many-body perturbation theory results beyond Hartree-Fock approximation were in close agreement with tDMRG results. In addition we studied the possibility of multistablity in the density and current of an interacting nanoscale junction as well as how to reversibly switch between the multiple solutions in time domain. An accurate theoretical treatment of electron correlation even in as simple model as an interacting electron gas at metallic densities still continues to be a challenge; especially description of features in the photoemission spectra due to electron correlations provides a theoretical challenge. The many-body perturbation theory yields a systematic way to study electron-electron (electron-phonon) correlations in various systems. One of the widely used approximations in MBPT is the GW approximation in which the bare interaction line is replaced with screened interaction line in the first order exchange diagram. The GW approximation gives good estimates for the band gap values close to experimental ones but especially the self-consistent GW approximation has a number of deficiencies like washing out of plasmon features and overestimation of bandwidths compared to experiment. One way to improve GW calculations is to include vertex corrections. Unfortunately, the straightforward inclusion of vertex corrections yields negative spectra in some frequency regions. We developed a diagrammatic approach to construct self-energy approximations with positive spectral properties. Our approach consists of expressing a self-energy of response diagram as a product of half-diagrams after which a minimal set of additional diagrams is identified to construct a perfect square. We applied this method to study vertex corrections in a homogeneous electron gas. In addition we analyzed the diagrammatic content of photocurrent with density functional theory. The expression for the photocurrent was obtained as an integral over the Kohn-Sham spectral function renormalized by effective potentials that depend on the exchange correlation kernel of current density functional theory. The expression for the photocurrent gives us the angular dependence of the photocurrent but it does not provide a direct access to the kinetic energy distribution of the photoelectrons. ...
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University of Jyväskylä
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978-951-39-6185-5
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0075-465X
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kvanttikuljetus monen kappaleen häiriöteoria Greenin funktio tiheysfunktionaaliteoria tiheysmatriisirenormalisaatioryhmä elektronikorrelaatio kvanttifysiikka kvanttikemia kvanttimekaniikka nanoelektroniikka molekyylielektroniikka elektronit dynamiikka
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