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Khosravi, Elham
Uimonen, A. M.
Stan, A.
Stefanucci, Gianluca
Kurth, S.
Leeuwen, R. van
Gross, E. K. U.
2012-05-31T11:21:40Z
2012-05-31T11:21:40Z
2012
Physical Review B 85(7): 075103 (2012)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/50527
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075103
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002341
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003086
The possibility of finding multistability in the density and current of an interacting nanoscale junction coupled to semi-infinite leads is studied at various levels of approximation. The system is driven out of equilibrium by an external bias and the nonequilibrium properties are determined by real-time propagation using both time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and many-body perturbation theory (MBPT). In TDDFT the exchange-correlation effects are described within a recently proposed adiabatic local density approximation (ALDA). In MBPT the electron-electron interaction is incorporated in a many-body self-energy which is then approximated at the Hartree-Fock (HF), second-Born, and GW level. Assuming the existence of a steady state and solving directly the steady-state equations we find multiple solutions in the HF approximation and within the ALDA. In these cases we investigate whether and how these solutions can be reached through time evolution and how to reversibly switch between them. We further show that for the same cases the inclusion of dynamical correlation effects suppresses bistability. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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Correlation effects in bistability at the nanoscale: Steady state and beyond
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