Quantum energy-transport and drift-diffusion models

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 625-667

  Degond, Pierre ^a   Méhats, Florian ^a   Ringhofer, Christian ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximation; Entropy minimization; Quantum BGK operator; Wigner equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244345981     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-004-8823-3     Document Type: Article

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