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Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics

Wigner Monte Carlo simulation without discretization error of the tunneling rectangular barrier

Orazio Muscato, Vincenza Di Stefano

Published Jan 1, 2019• 2 citations
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Abstract The Wigner transport equation can be solved stochastically by Monte Carlo techniques based on the theory of piecewise deterministic Markov processes. A new stochastic algorithm, without time discretization error, has been implemented and studied in the case of the quantum transport through a rectangular potential barrier.
DOI
10.2478/caim-2019-0009

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