Formal derivation of quantum drift-diffusion equations with spin-orbit interaction

DOI10.3934/KRM.2022007zbMATH Open1498.35539arXiv2109.09616OpenAlexW3200613938MaRDI QIDQ2140233FDOQ2140233

L. Barletti, Philipp Holzinger, Ansgar Jüngel

Publication date: 20 May 2022

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum drift-diffusion equations for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions of Rashba type are formally derived from a collisional Wigner equation. The collisions are modeled by a Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook-type operator describing the relaxation of the electron gas to a local equilibrium that is given by the quantum maximum entropy principle. Because of non-commutativity properties of the operators, the standard diffusion scaling cannot be used in this context, and a hydrodynamic time scaling is required. A Chapman-Enskog procedure leads, up to first order in the relaxation time, to a system of nonlocal quantum drift-diffusion equations for the charge density and spin vector densities. Local equations including the Bohm potential are obtained in the semiclassical expansion up to second order in the scaled Planck constant. The main novelty of this work is that all spin components are considered, while previous models only consider special spin directions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09616

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion limitspin-orbit interactionquantum maximum entropy principleBohm potentialWigner-Boltzmann equationsemiclassical model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) PDEs in connection with semiconductor devices (35Q81)

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