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Numerical Algorithms for Time-Resolved Quantum Transport

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Numerical Methods for Time-Resolved Quantum Nanoelectronics

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In Sect. 2.3.3 we saw that wavefunction-based methods are the current state of the art for the types of systems we want to study (a large number of degrees of freedom and long times). In this chapter we shall explain the algorithms used to compute time-dependent observables using our wavefunction-based “source-sink” algorithm.

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Weston, J. (2017). Numerical Algorithms for Time-Resolved Quantum Transport. In: Numerical Methods for Time-Resolved Quantum Nanoelectronics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63691-7_3

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