• 文献标题:   A kinetic model for the transport of electrons in a graphene layer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KAMMERER CF, MEHATS F
  • 作者关键词:   dirac equation, graphene, kinetic equation, conical intersection, landauzener formula
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-9991 EI 1090-2716
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Paris Est
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jcp.2016.09.010
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

In this article, we propose a new numerical scheme for the computation of the transport of electrons in a graphene device. The underlying quantum model for graphene is a massless Dirac equation, whose eigenvalues display a conical singularity responsible for non-adiabatic transitions between the two modes. We first derive a kinetic model which takes the form of two Boltzmann equations coupled by a collision operator modeling the non-adiabatic transitions. This collision term includes a Landau-Zener transfer term and a jump operator whose presence is essential in order to ensure a good energy conservation during the transitions. We propose an algorithmic realization of the semi-group solving the kinetic model, by a particle method. We give analytic justification of the model and propose a series of numerical experiments studying the influences of the various sources of errors between the quantum and the kinetic models. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.