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We employ the Wigner function formalism to simulate partially coherent, dissipative electron transport in biased semiconductor superlattices. We introduce a model collision integral with terms that describe energy dissipation, momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 O. Jonasson , I. Knezevic

A unified theory for the current through a nanoscale region of interacting electrons connected to two leads which can be either ferromagnet or superconductor is presented, yielding Meir-Wingreen-type formulas when applied to specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Zeng , Baowen Li , F. Claro

We present a systematic geometric framework for the dimensional reduction of classical electromagnetism based on the concept of descent along vector fields of invariance. By exploring the interplay between the Lie derivative and the Hodge…

We investigate the relationship between the covariant and the three-dimensional (equal-time) formulations of quantum kinetic theory. We show that the three-dimensional approach can be obtained as the energy average of the covariant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 P. Zhuang , U. Heinz

Two drift-diffusion models for the quantum transport of electrons in graphene, which account for the spin degree of freedom, are derived from a spinorial Wigner equation with relaxation-time or mass- and spin-conserving matrix collision…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

The quantum dynamics of an ensemble of interacting electrons in an array of random scatterers is treated using a new numerical approach for the calculation of average values of quantum operators and time correlation functions in the Wigner…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Filinov , P. Thomas , I. Varga , T. Meier , M. Bonitz , V. Fortov , S. W. Koch

If we develop into perturbation series the evolution operator of the Heisenberg equation in the infinite dimensional Weyl algebra, say, for the $\phi^4$ model of field theory, then the arising integrals almost coincide with the usual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-18 A. V. Stoyanovsky

A variational method is discussed, based on the principle of minimal variance. The method seems to be suited for gauge interacting fermions, and the simple case of quantum electrodynamics is discussed in detail. The issue of renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-10 Fabio Siringo

The recently developed Wigner functional theory is used to formulate an evolution equation for arbitrary multi-photon states, propagating through a turbulent atmosphere under arbitrary conditions. The resulting evolution equation, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Filippus S. Roux

A monodromy transform approach, presented in this communication, provides a general base for solution of space-time symmetry reductions of Einstein equations in all known integrable cases, which include vacuum, electrovacuum, massless Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 G. A. Alekseev

The quantum kinetic equation for the gauge-invariant Wigner function, constructed from spinor fields that obey the Dirac equation modified by CPT and Lorentz symmetry-violating terms, is presented. The equations for the components of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-21 Ömer F. Dayi

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

In Wigner function approach with relaxation time approximation, we calculate electric and magnetic conductivities of a fermion system in the strong magnetic field. The linear response has been calculated to the perturbation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Hao-Hao Peng , Xin-Li Sheng , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

A derivation is given of the Boltzmann-Vlasov equation beginning from multiple scattering considerations. The motivation for the discussion, which is purely pedagogical in nature, is the current interest in understanding the origins of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-17 J. M. Eisenberg

We provide a rigorous derivation of the Landau-Pekar equations from the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian in the mean-field limit using Wigner measure techniques. On the classical side, we extend the global well-posedness results up to $L^2 \oplus…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Raphaël Gautier

Electronic transport in narrow gap semiconductors is characterized by spontaneous vertical transitions between carriers in the valence and conduction bands, a phenomenon also known as Zener tunneling. However, this effect is not captured by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Andrea Cepellotti , Boris Kozinsky

We use the Wigner transformation and asymptotic analysis to systematically derive the semi-classical model for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in arbitrary spatial dimensions, with any periodic structure. Our particular emphasis lies in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Kunlun Qi , Li Wang , Alexander B. Watson

In this short paper we first give a very simple derivation of the Landauer formula for a 2-point conductance of QJ $G^{2P}$, based on the uncertainty principle. The aim of this is to introduce this central equation of quantum transport to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bokes

An exact Quantum Kinetic Monte Carlo method is proposed to calculate electron transport for 1D Fermi Hubbard model. The method is directly formulated in real time and can be applied to extract time dependent dynamics of general interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-07 Fei Lin , Jianqiu Huang , Celine Hin

We consider lattice dynamics with a small stochastic perturbation of order ε and prove that for a space-time scale of order \varepsilon\^-1 the local spectral density (Wigner function) evolves according to a linear transport equation…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Giada Basile , Stefano Olla , Herbert Spohn