A WENO-solver combined with adaptive momentum discretization for the Wigner transport equation and its application to resonant tunneling diodes

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2014.12.026zbMath1351.81019WikidataQ39543554 ScholiaQ39543554MaRDI QIDQ728979

Antonius Dorda, Ferdinand Schürrer

Publication date: 20 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2014.12.026

zbMATH Keywords

quantum transport; weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme; resonant tunneling diode; Wigner function approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

81-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory

81Q80: Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems

Uses Software

• MATLAB expm