We study the magnetic field effects on the spin-polarized transport of the quantum dot （QD） spin valve in the sequential tunneling regime. A set of generalized master equation is derived. Based on that, we discuss t...We study the magnetic field effects on the spin-polarized transport of the quantum dot （QD） spin valve in the sequential tunneling regime. A set of generalized master equation is derived. Based on that, we discuss the collinear and noncollinear magnetic field effects, respectively. In the collinear magnetic field case, we find that the Zeeman splitting can induce a negative differential conductance （NDC）, which is quite different from the one found in previous studies. It has a critical polarization in the parallel arrangement and will disappear in the antiparallel configuration. In the noncollinear magnetic field case, the current shows two plateaus and their angular dependence is analyzed. Although sometimes the two current plateaus have similar angular dependence, their mechanisms are different. Our formalism is also suitable for calculating the transport in magnetic molecules, in which the spin splitting is induced not by a magnetic field but by the intrinsic magnetization.展开更多
The time-convolutionless （TCL） quantum master equation provides a powerful tool to simulate reduced dynanfics of a quantum system coupled to a bath. The key quantity ill the TCL master equation is the so-called kern...The time-convolutionless （TCL） quantum master equation provides a powerful tool to simulate reduced dynanfics of a quantum system coupled to a bath. The key quantity ill the TCL master equation is the so-called kernel or generator, which describes eflhcts of the bath degrees of freedom. Since the exact TCL generators are usually hard to calculate analytically, most applications of the TCL generalized master equation have relied on approximate generators using second and fourth order perturbative expansions. By using the hierarchical equation of motion （HEOM） and extended HEOM methods, we present a new approach to calculating the exact TCL generator and its high order perturbative expansions. The new approach is applied to the spin-boson model with diflhrent sets of parameters, to investigate the convergence of the high order expansiolls of the TCL generator. We also discuss circumstances where the exact TCL generator becomes singular for the spin-boson model, and a model of excitation energy transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.展开更多
The generalized quantum master equation(GQME)provides a general and exact approach for simulating the reduced dynamics in open quantum systems where a quantum system is embedded in a quantum environment.Dynamics of op...The generalized quantum master equation(GQME)provides a general and exact approach for simulating the reduced dynamics in open quantum systems where a quantum system is embedded in a quantum environment.Dynamics of open quantum systems is important in excitation energy,charge,and quantum coherence transfer as well as reactive photochemistry.The system is usually chosen to be the interested degrees of freedom such as the electronicstates in light-harvesting molecules or tagged vibrational modes in a condensed-phase system.The environment is also called the bath,whose influence on the system has to be considered,and for instance can be described by the GQME formalisms using the projection operator technique.In this review,we provide a heuristic description of the development of two canonical forms of GQME,namely the time-convoluted Nakajima-Zwanzig form(NZ-GQME)and the time-convolutionless form(TCL-GQME).In the more popular NZ-GQME form,the memory kernel serves as the essential part that reflects the non-Markovian and non-perturbative effects,which gives formally exact dynamics of the reduced density matrix.We summarize several schemes to express the projection-based memory kernel of NZ-GQME in terms of projection-free time correlation function inputs that contain molecular information.In particular,the recently proposed modified GQME approach based on NZ-GQME partitions the Hamiltonian into a more general diagonal and off-diagonal parts.The projection-free inputs in the above-mentioned schemes expressed in terms of different system-dependent time correlation functions can be calculated via numerically exact or approximate dynamical methods.We hope this contribution would help lower the barrier of understanding the theoretical pillars for GQME-based quantum dynamics methods and also envisage that their combination with the quantum computing techniques will pave the way for solving complex problems related to quantum dynamics and quantum information that are currently intractable even with today’s state-of-the-art展开更多
基金supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,US-DOE under Grant No.DE-FG02-04ER46124,US-Natural Science FoundationNational Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.10525418,10734110,and 60776060
文摘We study the magnetic field effects on the spin-polarized transport of the quantum dot （QD） spin valve in the sequential tunneling regime. A set of generalized master equation is derived. Based on that, we discuss the collinear and noncollinear magnetic field effects, respectively. In the collinear magnetic field case, we find that the Zeeman splitting can induce a negative differential conductance （NDC）, which is quite different from the one found in previous studies. It has a critical polarization in the parallel arrangement and will disappear in the antiparallel configuration. In the noncollinear magnetic field case, the current shows two plateaus and their angular dependence is analyzed. Although sometimes the two current plateaus have similar angular dependence, their mechanisms are different. Our formalism is also suitable for calculating the transport in magnetic molecules, in which the spin splitting is induced not by a magnetic field but by the intrinsic magnetization.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21673246)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB12020300)
文摘The time-convolutionless （TCL） quantum master equation provides a powerful tool to simulate reduced dynanfics of a quantum system coupled to a bath. The key quantity ill the TCL master equation is the so-called kernel or generator, which describes eflhcts of the bath degrees of freedom. Since the exact TCL generators are usually hard to calculate analytically, most applications of the TCL generalized master equation have relied on approximate generators using second and fourth order perturbative expansions. By using the hierarchical equation of motion （HEOM） and extended HEOM methods, we present a new approach to calculating the exact TCL generator and its high order perturbative expansions. The new approach is applied to the spin-boson model with diflhrent sets of parameters, to investigate the convergence of the high order expansiolls of the TCL generator. We also discuss circumstances where the exact TCL generator becomes singular for the spin-boson model, and a model of excitation energy transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.
基金support from NYU Shanghai,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21903054)the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale(No.KF2020008)+1 种基金the Shanghai Sailing Program(No.19YF1435600)the Program for Eastern Young Scholar at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning。
文摘The generalized quantum master equation(GQME)provides a general and exact approach for simulating the reduced dynamics in open quantum systems where a quantum system is embedded in a quantum environment.Dynamics of open quantum systems is important in excitation energy,charge,and quantum coherence transfer as well as reactive photochemistry.The system is usually chosen to be the interested degrees of freedom such as the electronicstates in light-harvesting molecules or tagged vibrational modes in a condensed-phase system.The environment is also called the bath,whose influence on the system has to be considered,and for instance can be described by the GQME formalisms using the projection operator technique.In this review,we provide a heuristic description of the development of two canonical forms of GQME,namely the time-convoluted Nakajima-Zwanzig form(NZ-GQME)and the time-convolutionless form(TCL-GQME).In the more popular NZ-GQME form,the memory kernel serves as the essential part that reflects the non-Markovian and non-perturbative effects,which gives formally exact dynamics of the reduced density matrix.We summarize several schemes to express the projection-based memory kernel of NZ-GQME in terms of projection-free time correlation function inputs that contain molecular information.In particular,the recently proposed modified GQME approach based on NZ-GQME partitions the Hamiltonian into a more general diagonal and off-diagonal parts.The projection-free inputs in the above-mentioned schemes expressed in terms of different system-dependent time correlation functions can be calculated via numerically exact or approximate dynamical methods.We hope this contribution would help lower the barrier of understanding the theoretical pillars for GQME-based quantum dynamics methods and also envisage that their combination with the quantum computing techniques will pave the way for solving complex problems related to quantum dynamics and quantum information that are currently intractable even with today’s state-of-the-art
