Title
Improved recursive Green's function formalism for quasi one-dimensional systems with realistic defects.
Abstract
We derive an improved version of the recursive Green's function formalism (RGF), which is a standard tool in the quantum transport theory. We consider the case of disordered quasi one-dimensional materials where the disorder is applied in form of randomly distributed realistic defects, leading to partly periodic Hamiltonian matrices. The algorithm accelerates the common RGF in the recursive decimation scheme, using the iteration steps of the renormalization decimation algorithm. This leads to a smaller effective system, which is treated using the common forward iteration scheme. The computational complexity scales linearly with the number of defects, instead of linearly with the total system length for the conventional approach. We show that the scaling of the calculation time of the Green's function depends on the defect density of a random test system. Furthermore, we discuss the calculation time and the memory requirement of the whole transport formalism applied to defective carbon nanotubes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.jcp.2017.01.024
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Recursive Green's function formalism (RGF),Renormalization decimation algorithm (RDA),Electronic transport,Carbon nanotube (CNT),Defect
Renormalization,Mathematical optimization,Green's function,Decimation,Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics),Matrix (mathematics),Periodic graph (geometry),Mathematics,Recursion,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
334
0021-9991
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabian Teichert100.34
Andreas Zienert200.34
jorg schuster300.68
Michael Schreiber4453.85