The quantum drift-diffusion model: existence and exponential convergence to the equilibrium

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2018.10.002zbMATH Open1412.82022arXiv1611.04962OpenAlexW2963665653WikidataQ115589650 ScholiaQ115589650MaRDI QIDQ1734626FDOQ1734626

Olivier Pinaud

Publication date: 27 March 2019

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work is devoted to the analysis of the quantum drift-diffusion model derived by Degond et al. The model is obtained as the diffusive limit of the quantum Liouville-BGK equation, where the collision term is defined after a local quantum statistical equilibrium. The corner stone of the model is the closure relation between the density and the current, which is nonlinear and nonlocal, and is the main source of the mathematical difficulties. The question of the existence of solutions has been open since the derivation of the model, and we provide here a first result in a one-dimensional periodic setting. The proof is based on an approximation argument, and exploits some properties of the minimizers of an appropriate quantum free energy. We investigate as well the long time behavior, and show that the solutions converge exponentially fast to the equilibrium. This is done by deriving a non-commutative logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the local quantum statistical equilibrium.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04962

zbMATH Keywords

density operatorexistence theoryquantum drift diffusionconvergence to the equilibriumnon-commutative logarithmic Sobolev inequalitiesquantum free energy minimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

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