A Semiclassical Transport Model for Thin Quantum Barriers

DOI10.1137/060653214zbMath1130.65087MaRDI QIDQ5432393

Kyle A. Novak, Shih Jin

Publication date: 3 January 2008

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/060653214

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examples; scattering; multiscale method; semiclassical limit; stationary Schrödinger equation; transport model; quantum barrier

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

35Q55: NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)

81Q20: Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory

81S30: Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics

65Z05: Applications to the sciences

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