Semiclassical analysis of the Schrödinger equation with a partially confining potential

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 580-614

  Ben Abdallah, Naoufel ^a   Méhats, Florian ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Semiclassical limit; Subband transport; Two dimensional electron gas; Wigner measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144395862     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matpur.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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