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Adaptive Conservative Cell Average Spectral Element Methods for Transient Wigner Equation in Quantum Transport

Adaptive Conservative Cell Average Spectral Element Methods for Transient Wigner Equation in Quantum Transport
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Year:    2011

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 9 (2011), Iss. 3 : pp. 711–739

Abstract

A new adaptive cell average spectral element method (SEM) is proposed to solve the time-dependent Wigner equation for transport in quantum devices. The proposed cell average SEM allows adaptive non-uniform meshes in phase spaces to reduce the high-dimensional computational cost of Wigner functions while preserving exactly the mass conservation for the numerical solutions. The key feature of the proposed method is an analytical relation between the cell averages of the Wigner function in the k-space (local electron density for finite range velocity) and the point values of the distribution, resulting in fast transforms between the local electron density and local fluxes of the discretized Wigner equation via the fast sine and cosine transforms. Numerical results with the proposed method are provided to demonstrate its high accuracy, conservation, convergence and a reduction of the cost using adaptive meshes.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.080509.310310s

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 9 (2011), Iss. 3 : pp. 711–739

Published online:    2011-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    29

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