Multiphase semiclassical approximation of an electron in a one-dimensional crystalline lattice. I: Homogeneous problems

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2003.12.004zbMath1079.81026OpenAlexW1612931621MaRDI QIDQ598153

Laurent Gosse, Peter Alexander Markowich

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2003.12.004

zbMATH Keywords

HomogenizationVlasov equationMoment methodNon-strictly hyperbolic systemsPeriodic potentialSemiclassical limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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