Real-time formalism for studying the nonlinear response of "smart" materials to an electric field

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dc.creatorFreericks, J. K.
dc.creatorTurkowski, V.
dc.creatorZlatic, and V.
dc.date2005-11-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:38:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:38:41Z
dc.descriptionThe nonlinear response of a material to a large electric field (steady or pulsed) often determines the ultimate performance of the material for electronics applications. The formalism for understanding nonlinear effects in conventional semiconductors is well understood. The formalism is less well developed for so-called ``smart'' materials that are tuned to lie close to the metal-insulator transition. Here we show that the nonlinear response of a strongly correlated electronic material can be calculated with a massively parallel algorithm by discretizing a continuous matrix operator on the Kadanoff-Baym contour in real time. We benchmark the technique by examining the solutions when the field vanishes and comparing the results to exact results from an equilibrium formalism. We briefly discuss the numerical issues associated with the case of a large electric field and present results that show how the Bloch oscillations become damped as the scattering due to electron correlations increases.
dc.description(8 pages, Proceedings of the 2005 DOD HPMC User's Group Conference)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511061
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511061
dc.identifierin Proceedings of the HPCMP Users Group Conference 2005, Nashville, TN, June 28--30, 2005 edited by D. E. Post (IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2005), pp. 25--34
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/121180
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleReal-time formalism for studying the nonlinear response of "smart" materials to an electric field
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