Local temperatures out of equilibrium

D Zhang, X Zheng, M Di Ventra - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The temperature of a physical system is operationally defined in physics as “that quantity
which is measured by a thermometer” weakly coupled to, and at equilibrium with the system …

Exact master equation and general non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems

WM Zhang - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2019 - Springer
Investigations of quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics force one to answer two
fundamental questions associated with the foundations of statistical mechanics:(i) how does …

Electronic and optical properties of graphene nanoribbons in external fields

HC Chung, CP Chang, CY Lin, MF Lin - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A review work is done for the electronic and optical properties of graphene nanoribbons in
magnetic, electric, composite, and modulated fields. Effects due to the lateral confinement …

Non-Markovian complexity in the quantum-to-classical transition

HN Xiong, PY Lo, WM Zhang, DH Feng, F Nori - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The quantum-to-classical transition is due to environment-induced decoherence and it
depicts how classical dynamics emerges from quantum systems. Previously, the quantum-to …

Significantly enhanced thermoelectric performance of Van der Waals interface coupling molecular junction with nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbon electrodes

B Zhang - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Rational design of model structure and effective strategy to overcome inherent mismatch
between molecular orbital energy and Fermi level (FL) of electrodes are the key …

Non-Markovianity measure using two-time correlation functions

MM Ali, PY Lo, MWY Tu, WM Zhang - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We investigate non-Markovianity measure using two-time correlation functions for open
quantum systems. We define non-Markovianity measure as the difference between the exact …

Quantum thermodynamics of single particle systems

MM Ali, WM Huang, WM Zhang - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Thermodynamics is built with the concept of equilibrium states. However, it is less clear how
equilibrium thermodynamics emerges through the dynamics that follows the principle of …

Spin-polarized magneto-electronic properties in buckled monolayer GaAs

HC Chung, CW Chiu, MF Lin - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We develop the generalized tight-binding model to fully explore the magneto-electronic
properties of monolayer GaAs, where the buckled structure, multi-orbital chemical bondings …

Master equation approach to transient quantum transport in nanostructures incorporating initial correlations

PY Yang, CY Lin, WM Zhang - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
In this paper, the exact transient quantum transport in noninteracting nanostructures is
investigated in the presence of initial correlations for a device system coupled to general …

Photon energy amplification for the design of a micro PV panel

MF Hossain - International Journal of Energy Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To design a micro PV panel, thousands of photons have been produced from a single
photon by breaking down its photonic structure using Higgs‐Boson BR (H→ γγ¯) quantum …