A semiclassical transport model for thin quantum barriers

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1063-1086

  Jin, Shi ^a   Novak, Kyle A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Liouville; Multiscale method; Quantum barrier; Semiclassical limit; von Neumann

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCATTERING; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

MULTISCALE METHOD; QUANTUM BARRIER; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34548686622     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060653214     Document Type: Article

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