Efficient wave function matching approach for quantum transport calculations

Abstract

The Wave Function Matching (WFM) technique has recently been developed for the calculation of electronic transport in quantum two-probe systems. In terms of efficiency it is comparable with the widely used Green's function approach. The WFM formalism presented so far requires the evaluation of all the propagating and evanescent bulk modes of the left and right electrodes in order to obtain the correct coupling between device and electrode regions. In this paper we will describe a modified WFM approach that allows for the exclusion of the vast majority of the evanescent modes in all parts of the calculation. This approach makes it feasible to apply iterative techniques to efficiently determine the few required bulk modes, which allows for a significant reduction of the computational expense of the WFM method. We illustrate the efficiency of the method on a carbon nanotube field-effect-transistor (FET) device displaying band-to-band tunneling and modeled within the semi-empirical Extended Hückel theory (EHT) framework.

Submitted to Phys. Rev. B

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