Extended Landauer-Büttiker Formula for Current through Open Quantum Systems with Gain or Loss

Chao Yang1, Yucheng Wang1

  • 1Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen 518055, China, International Quantum Academy, Shenzhen 518048, China, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.

Physical Review Letters
|February 22, 2026
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