Quantum Transport in Molecular Nanostructures
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 1626
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of quantum transport in molecular nanostructures is of increasing relevance as information processing systems are implemented at the nanometer dimension. In the steady state, transport physics can encode information about electron–electron interactions, noise, and quantum interference. Meanwhile, intramolecular transport processes make the design of devices operating in the THz regime an experimental reality.
This has led to the development of a suite of techniques for the theoretical description of quantum transport in nanostructures, including, but not limited to, the nonequilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) approach, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), and master equation approaches, which all have advantages in different transport regimes.
This Special Issue aims to bring together articles addressing energy, charge, and spin transport in molecular nanostructures, with a particular focus on time-dependent methods, strongly correlated systems, and higher-order statistics.
Dr. Michael Ridley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantum transport
- molecular junction
- electronic correlations
- nonequilibrium
- Green's function
- master equation
- superconductivity
- shot noise
- full counting statistics
- photon-assisted tunnelling
- quantum dots
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