A Highly Efficient USOR-Like Iterative Method for the Stationary Wigner Equation with Scattering

Abstract

The stationary Wigner equation (SWE) is often used to model the quantum transport in semiconductor devices. The discrete stationary Wigner equation is derived using the first-order upwind scheme and the sinc-Galerkin method [H. Jiang, T. Lu, and W. Zhang, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 409 (2022), 114152]. Based on the successive over relaxation (SOR) iterative method, we develop the basic SOR-like (BSOR-like) and updated SOR-like (USOR-like) iterative methods for solving the discrete stationary Wigner equation efficiently. The main difference between these two iterative methods is that the USOR-like iterative method aims to make more use of the updated components of the Wigner function by splitting the pseudo-differential term. The convergence range of the relaxation parameter in the USOR-like iterative method is numerically investigated. Compared with that of the BSOR-like iterative method, this interval is significantly enlarged. Numerical results have also shown that the USOR-like iterative method is more computationally efficient than the BSOR-like iterative method. As an application, the resonant tunneling effect and the effects of scattering are investigated by simulating a resonant tunneling diode (RTD) using the USOR-like iterative method.