Quantum drift-diffusion equations for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-82946-9_2MaRDI QIDQ2090149zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Barletti, Philipp Holzinger, Ansgar Jüngel

Publication date 24 October 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15947

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Abstract: Quantum drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. The (formal) derivation turns out to be a non-standard application of the usual mathematical tools, such as Wigner transform, Moyal product expansion and Chapman-Enskog expansion. The main peculiarity consists in the fact that a non-vanishing current is already carried by the leading-order term in the Chapman-Enskog expansion. To our knowledge, this is the first example of quantum drift-diffusion equations involving the full spin vector. Indeed, previous models were either quantum bipolar (involving only the spin projection on a given axis) or full spin but semiclassical.

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