A NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE GAUSSIAN BEAM METHODS FOR SCHRODINGER-POISSON EQUATIONS

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2010-02-12
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Asanimportantmodelinquantumsemiconductordevices,theSchrodinger-Poissonequationshavegeneratedwidespreadinterestsinbothanalysisandnumericalsimulationsinrecentyears.Inthispaper,wepresentGaussianbeammethodsforthenumericalsimulationoftheone-dimensionalSchrodinger-Poissonequations.TheGaussianbeammethodsforhighfrequencywavesoutperformthegeometricalopticsmethodinthattheformerareaccurateevenaroundcaustics.ThepurposesofthepaperarefirsttodeveloptheGaussianbeammethods,basedonourpreviousmethodsforthelinearSchrodingerequation,fortheSchrodinger-Poissonequations,andthenchecktheirvalidityforthisweakly-nonlinearsystem.