Bounded weak solutions to a matrix drift-diffusion model for spin-coherent electron transport in semiconductors

DOI10.1142/S0218202515500232MaRDI QIDQ5247100zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ansgar Jüngel, Claudia Negulescu, Polina Shpartko

Publication date 22 April 2015

Published in M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2461

zbMATH Keywords

Alikakos iterationbounded weak solutionsMoser iterationsemiconductorsspinor drift-diffusion equationsStampacchia truncation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K51) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

Abstract: The global-in-time existence and uniqueness of bounded weak solutions to a spinorial matrix drift-diffusion model for semiconductors is proved. Developing the electron density matrix in the Pauli basis, the coefficients (charge density and spin-vector density) satisfy a parabolic $4imes4$ cross-diffusion system. The key idea of the existence proof is to work with different variables: the spin-up and spin-down densities as well as the parallel and perpendicular components of the spin-vector density with respect to the magnetization. In these variables, the diffusion matrix becomes diagonal. The proofs of the $L^{i}nfty$ estimates are based on Stampacchia truncation as well as Moser- and Alikakos-type iteration arguments. The monotonicity of the entropy (or free energy) is also proved. Numerical experiments in one space dimension using a finite-volume discretization indicate that the entropy decays exponentially fast to the equilibrium state.

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