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The Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions computed from first principles is widely used to study electronic transport and nonequilibrium dynamics in materials. Calculating the e-ph collision integral is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Shiyu Peng , Donnie Pinkston , Jia Yao , Sergei Kliavinek , Ivan Maliyov , Marco Bernardi

This paper introduces JAX-BTE, a GPU-accelerated, differentiable solver for the phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) based on differentiable programming. JAX-BTE enables accurate, efficient and differentiable multiscale thermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Wenjie Shang , Jiahang Zhou , J. P. Panda , Zhihao Xu , Yi Liu , Pan Du , Jian-Xun Wang , Tengfei Luo

Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is an ideal tool to describe the multiscale phonon transport phenomena, which are critical to applications like microelectronics cooling. Numerically solving phonon BTE is extremely computationally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Ruiyang Li , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

We present a finite difference numerical algorithm for solving two dimensional spatially homogeneous Boltzmann transport equation which describes electron transport in a semiconductor superlattice subject to crossed time dependent electric…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dmitri Priimak

Designing materials with controlled heat flow at the nano-scale is central to advances in microelectronics, thermoelectrics, and energy-conversion technologies. At these scales, phonon transport follows the Boltzmann Transport Equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Antonio Varagnolo , Giuseppe Romano , Raphaël Pestourie

Phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is a key tool for modeling multiscale phonon transport, which is critical to the thermal management of miniaturized integrated circuits, but assumptions about the system temperatures (i.e., small…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Ruiyang Li , Jian-Xun Wang , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

Simulations of physical phenomena are essential to the expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries. These phenomena are often described by mathematical models involving partial differential equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Daniel Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

In this thesis we develop techniques to efficiently solve numerical Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Focus is put on both performance and re--usability of the methods developed, to this end a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Andrew Gloster

We present a general coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport equations (BTEs) scheme designed to capture the mutual drag of the two interacting systems. By combining density functional theory based first principles calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 Nakib H. Protik , David A. Broido

The expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries requires simulations of physical phenomena often described by partial differential equations (PDEs) without exact solutions. Modern design problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Daniel J Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Electrostatic interactions play crucial roles in biophysical processes such as protein folding and molecular recognition. Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE)-based models have emerged as widely used in modeling these important processes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Ruxi Qi , Wesley M. Botello-Smith , Ray Luo

Phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is an important tool for studying the nanoscale thermal transport. Because phonons have a large spread in their properties, the non-gray (i.e. considering different phonon bands) phonon BTE is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yue Hu , Yongxing Shen , Hua Bao

We present a massively parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of the vertical excitation energies (VEEs) and optical absorption spectra of condensed and molecular systems, starting…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Yu Jin , Giulia Galli , Marco Govoni

We present a Pseudo-Transient Topology Optimization (PeTTO) approach that can leverage graphics processing units (GPUs) to efficiently solve single-material and multi-material topology optimization problems. By integrating PeTTO with phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Mingyuan Yang , Qian Yu , Chao Yang

In this paper we solve the Boltzmann transport equation using AI libraries. The reason why this is attractive is because it enables one to use the highly optimised software within AI libraries, enabling one to run on different computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 T. R. F. Phillips , C. E. Heaney , C. Boyang , A. G. Buchan , C. C. Pain

We present BTE-Barna (Boltzmann Transport Equation - Beyond the Rta for NAnosystems), a software package that extends the Monte Carlo (MC) module of the almaBTE solver of the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation for phonons (PBTE) to work…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Martí Raya-Moreno , Xavier Cartoixà , Jesús Carrete

Advances in nanotechnology have facilitated the exploration of submicron thermal transport. At this scale, Fourier's law is no longer applicable, and the governing equation for thermal transport is the phonon Boltzmann transport equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Yue Hu , Ru Jia , Jiaxuan Xu , Yufei Sheng , Minhua Wen , James Lin , Yongxing Shen , Hua Bao

We present an algorithm for solving the one-dimensional space collisional Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for electrons in low-temperature plasmas (LTPs). Modeling LTPs is useful in many applications, including advanced manufacturing,…

We propose a CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing method for solving time-evolution partial differential equation problems many times with guaranteed accuracy, in short time-to-solution and low energy-to-solution. On a single-GH200 node, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tsuyoshi Ichimura , Kohei Fujita , Muneo Hori , Lalith Maddegedara , Jack Wells , Alan Gray , Ian Karlin , John Linford

Tensor network techniques, known for their low-rank approximation ability that breaks the curse of dimensionality, are emerging as a foundation of new mathematical methods for ultra-fast numerical solutions of high-dimensional Partial…

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