Electronic correlations and real-time dynamics in nanostructures: a computational approach

Abstract

This research proposal contemplates computational studies of transport andnon equilibrium effects in strongly correlated systems, with particular emphasison nanostructured materials. Our goal is to investigate electronic correlation sand many-body phenomena and its manifestations on the transport properties of nanostructures such as semiconductor quantum dots and molecular complexes. To this end, we employ state-of-the-art nonperturbative numerical techniques: the numerical renormalization group (NRG) and the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), as well as their respective time-dependent versions (tNRG andtDMRG). The project calls for que acquisition of a high-performance, 4-node cluster to perform the numerical calculations. (AU)