Energy-transport models for spin transport in ferromagnetic semiconductors

DOI10.4310/CMS.2017.V15.N6.A3zbMATH Open1388.35038arXiv1604.05480MaRDI QIDQ1709613FDOQ1709613

Ansgar Jüngel, Nicola Zamponi, Polina Shpartko

Publication date: 6 April 2018

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Explicit energy-transport equations for the spinorial carrier transport in ferromagnetic semiconductors are calculated from a general spin energy-transport system that was derived by Ben Abdallah and El Hajj from a spinorial Boltzmann equation. The novelty of our approach are the simplifying assumptions leading to explicit models which extend both spin drift-diffusion and semiclassical energy-transport equations. The explicit models allow us to examine the interplay between the spin and charge degrees of freedom. In particular, the monotonicity of the entropy (or free energy) and gradient estimates are shown for these models and the existence of weak solutions to a time-discrete version of one of the models is proved, using novel truncation arguments. Numerical experiments in one-dimensional multilayer structures using a finite-volume discretization illustrate the effect of the temperature and the polarization parameter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05480

zbMATH Keywords

spin transport entropy inequalities semiconductors finite-volume method energy-transport equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Cited In (2)

This page was built for publication: Energy-transport models for spin transport in ferromagnetic semiconductors

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1709613)