A semiclassical transport model for two-dimensional thin quantum barriers

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1623-1644

  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 equation; Multiscale method; Numerical methods; Quantum barrier; Semiclassical limit

Indexed keywords

LIOUVILLE EQUATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

INTERFACE CONDITIONS; LIOUVILLE'S EQUATION; MIXED STATE; MULTISCALE METHOD; QUANTUM BARRIERS; QUANTUM FILM; SEMI-CLASSICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT; TIME DEPENDENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 34548689607     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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