Stationary Wigner equation with inflow boundary conditions: will a symmetric potential yield a symmetric solution?

DOI10.1137/130941754zbMATH Open1298.81137arXiv1310.2383OpenAlexW2160568018MaRDI QIDQ3192124FDOQ3192124

Zhangpeng Sun, Tiao Lu, Ruo Li

Publication date: 26 September 2014

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Based on the well-posedness of the stationary Wigner equation with inflow boundary conditions given in (A. Arnold, H et al. J. Math. Phys., 41, 2000), we prove without any additional prerequisite conditions that the solution of the Wigner equation with symmetric potential and inflow boundary conditions will be symmetric. This improve the result in (D. Taj et al. Europhys. Lett., 74, 2006) which depends on the convergence of solution formulated in the Neumann series. By numerical studies, we present the convergence of the numerical solution to the symmetric profile for three different numerical schemes. This implies that the upwind schemes can also yield a symmetric numerical solution, on the contrary to the argument given in (D. Taj et al. Europhys. Lett., 74, 2006).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2383

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zbMATH Keywords

well-posednessinflow boundary conditionsWigner equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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