Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and Quantum Transport in Multi-Terminal Conductors

We study the transport properties of multi-terminal Hermitian structures within the non-equilibrium Green’s function formalism in a tight-binding approximation. We show that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians naturally appear in the description of coherent tunneling and are indispensable for the derivation...

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Main Authors: Nikolay M. Shubin, Alexander A. Gorbatsevich, Gennadiy Ya. Krasnikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/4/459