2014/10/27 by Masahiko Hayashi, Hayashi, Masahiko
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Graphene research and applications #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #Quantum and electron transport phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.7124
We present a new formulation to calculate the electric conductance of mesoscopic conductors by utilizing the singular value decomposition, which is a mathematical technique to manipulate matrices. Our formulation is useful in treating conductors with rather complicated atomic structures, for which naive recursion formula is cumbersome. It also has an advantage in scaling up the calculation by using parallel computation, which potentially allows us the real-scale calculations at the atomic level. On the other hands, the effects of electron-electron interactions are hard to be treated within this framework, since it depends crucially on the linearity of the system. In this paper, we study graphene nanoribbons with external leads for a simple example.