A coherent semiclassical transport model for pure-state quantum scattering

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 253-275

  Jin, Shi ^a   Novak, Kyle A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent; Liouville; Multiscale method; Quantum barrier; Semiclassical limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954748545     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2010.v8.n1.a13     Document Type: Article

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