Semi-spectral method for the Wigner equation
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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.11.023zbMATH Open1349.81017DBLPjournals/jcphy/FurtmaierSM16arXiv1506.08154OpenAlexW1716680397WikidataQ59656698 ScholiaQ59656698MaRDI QIDQ2374979FDOQ2374979
Authors: O. Furtmaier, Sauro Succi, Miller Mendoza 
Publication date: 5 December 2016
Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We propose a numerical method to solve the Wigner equation in quantum systems of spinless, non-relativistic particles. The method uses a spectral decomposition into basis functions in momentum-space to obtain a system of first-order advection-reaction equations. The resulting equations are solved by splitting the reaction and advection steps so as to allow the combination of numerical techniques from quantum mechanics and computational fluid dynamics by identifying the skew-hermitian reaction matrix as a generator of unitary rotations. The method is validated for the case of particles subject to a one-dimensional (an-)harmonic potential using finite-differences for the advection part. Thereby, we verify the second order of convergence and observe non-classical behavior in the evolution of the Wigner function.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08154
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