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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 35: Postersession Transport: Nanoelectronics, Quantum Coherence and Quantum Information, Fluctuations and Noise
TT 35.16: Poster
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 14:00–18:00, P1A
Using wave packet propagation to calculate conductivities — •Christoph Kreisbeck1, Viktor Krückl1, and Tobias Kramer1,2 — 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
The solution of the time dependent Schrödinger equation contains a lot of information about the stationary properties of the system under consideration. To reveal these information we consider the time evolution of a single wave packet and perform the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function leading to the local density of states (LDOS), which is a key ingredient for the calculation of currents through semiconductor devices. Another way to calculate transport properties is to use flux lines - kind of charge sensors - detecting the energy dependent flux. Using these lines we obtain transmission propabilities, which are closely connected to the conductance, for a whole range of energies from a single wave packet run. In this contribution we illustrate the described technique for a multi-terminal device.