Inelastic Quantum Transport in Superlattices: Success and Failure of the Boltzmann Equation

Andreas Wacker; Antti-Pekka Jauho; Stephan Rott; Alexander Markus; P. Binder; G.H. Döhler

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.836

Inelastic Quantum Transport in Superlattices: Success and Failure of the Boltzmann Equation

Andreas Wacker, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Stephan Rott, Alexander Markus, P. Binder, G.H. Döhler

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Abstract

Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift-velocity-held relation and the momentum distribution function covering the whole held range from linear response to negative differential conductivity. The quantum results are compared with the respective results obtained from a Monte Carlo solution of the Boltzmann equation. Our analysis thus sets the limits of validity for the semiclassical theory in a nonlinear transport situation in the presence of inelastic scattering.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	83
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	836-839
ISSN	0031-9007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.836
Publication status	Published - 1999

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Copyright (1999) by the American Physical Society.

Keywords

MODEL
MINIBAND TRANSPORT
NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTIVITY
HOPPING TRANSPORT
SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES

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