Nonequilibrium transport properties for a three-site quantum wire model

Zulqarnyn Ashraf, Syed Sikandar

Fabrizio Dolcini, Björn Trauzettel, Inès Safi A +1 more

Yangdong Zheng

We analyze nonequilibrium electronic transport properties of a typical interacting three-site quantum wire model within Hartree-Fock approximation making use of Keldysh formalism. Some rigorous formulas are provided for direct calculations when Coulomb repulsion is present. According to numerical calculations using above formulas, we investigate the conductance, transport currents, and on site electronic charges of the wire on some special occasions in the interacting case, and also compare them with the results in the noninteracting case.

Frauke Schwarz

Yangdong Zheng

We choose a typical three-site one-dimensional (1D) quantum chain system to deduce exact spin states and nonequilibrium spin transport properties analytically. The initial spin-up and spin-down electron charges on each site of the chain are calculated from the exactly derived spin ground state with the assumption of half-filling. Based on the Keldysh formalism, we describe the basic theoretical methods and derive some analytic formulas (differential spin conductance, spin transport current, electron charge distribution, etc.) for nonequilibrium spin transport of the 1D chain systems within the Hartree–Fock approximation when Coulomb electron interaction is present. The scattering processes including Coulomb repulsion between the spin-up and spin-down electrons, and spin–spin interactions due to spin degrees freedom are taken into account. We also report the numerical results of the nonequilibrium spin transport of the three-site 1D chain system in some special cases using the initial spin-up/down electron charges.

Amir Yacoby