The quantum Child-Langmuir problem (Q4373350)

This paper concerns the quantum Child-Langmuir problem. The authors prove the convergence of the following sequence of Schrödinger-Poisson systems \[ -h^2\varphi ''_{k,h,\varepsilon }+V_{h,\varepsilon }\varphi _{k,h,\varepsilon } =k^2\varphi _{k,h,\varepsilon },\qquad h\varphi '_{k,h,\varepsilon }(0)+ik\varphi _{k,h,\varepsilon }(0)=2ik \] \[ h\varphi' _{k,h,\varepsilon }(1)=i\sqrt{k^2-V_1}\varphi _{k,h,\varepsilon }(1), \] \[ -V''_{h,\varepsilon }={1\over {\varepsilon ^2}}\int_0^{\infty }\Phi ( {k\over {\varepsilon }})| \varphi _{k,h,\varepsilon }(x)| ^2dk,\quad V_{h,\varepsilon }(0)=0, \quad V_{h,\varepsilon }(1)=V_1 \] to the following Child-Langmuir type problem for the classical Vlasov-Poisson problem: \[ v{{\partial f_{\varepsilon }}\over {\partial x}}-{1\over 2} {{dV_{\varepsilon }}\over {dx}}{{\partial f_{\varepsilon }}\over {\partial x}} =0 \] \[ f_{\varepsilon }(0,v)={1\over {\varepsilon ^2}}\Phi ({v\over{\varepsilon }}), \quad v>0, \qquad f_{\varepsilon }(1,v)=0, \quad v<0 \] \[ -V''_{\varepsilon }n_{\varepsilon }=\int_{\mathbb{R}}f_{\varepsilon }dv,\qquad V_{\varepsilon }(0)=0, \quad V_{\varepsilon }(1)=V_1. \] The limit is taken for \(h\to 0\), where \(h>0\) represents a scaled Planck constant.