Multi-band Wigner function formulation of quantum transport

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 327, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 230-240

  Unlu, Mehmet Burcin ^a   Rosen, Bernard ^a   Cui, Hong Liang ^a   Zhao, Peiji ^b  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

72.10. d; 79.60.Jv; Multi band semiconductor systems; Wigner function equation

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

79.60.JV; MULTI BAND; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS; TUNNELING STRUCTURE; TWO BANDS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

HAMILTONIANS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 2942547761     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.05.022     Document Type: Article

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