conductance in large-voltage regime
Dear all, Kwant is by default computing the linear Ohmic conductance in the regime where left and right chemical potentials differ infinitesimally. Do I get it right that to obtain ballistic conductance in the case of finite difference of chemical potentials, I can simply integrate the Kwant conductance result over a range of chemical potentials between the left and right contacts? This seems like a very natural thing to do to me. Am I right? Also, one can smoothen this integration with derivative of Fermi function to account for temperature. Best wishes, Sergey
Dear Sergey,
Your understanding is exactly right. Of course this does not include
the nonlinear charging effects in the scattering region, so it is an
approximation to finite bias conductance.
Best,
Anton
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Sergey Slizovskiy
Dear all, Kwant is by default computing the linear Ohmic conductance in the regime where left and right chemical potentials differ infinitesimally. Do I get it right that to obtain ballistic conductance in the case of finite difference of chemical potentials, I can simply integrate the Kwant conductance result over a range of chemical potentials between the left and right contacts? This seems like a very natural thing to do to me. Am I right? Also, one can smoothen this integration with derivative of Fermi function to account for temperature. Best wishes, Sergey
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Anton Akhmerov
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Sergey Slizovskiy