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Local Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the 2D Simulation of Quantum Transport Phenomena on Quantum Directional Coupler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

Li Guo and
Yan Xu
Li Guo*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R. China
Yan Xu*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R. China
*
Email:lili2010@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Corresponding author.Email:yxu@ustc.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this paper, we present local discontinuous Galerkin methods (LDG) to simulate an important application of the 2D stationary Schrödinger equation called quantum transport phenomena on a typical quantum directional coupler, which frequency change mainly reflects in y-direction. We present the minimal dissipation LDG (MD-LDG) method with polynomial basis functions for the 2D stationary Schrödinger equation which can describe quantum transport phenomena. We also give the MD-LDG method with polynomial basis functions in x-direction and exponential basis functions in y-direction for the 2D stationary Schrödinger equation to reduce the computational cost. The numerical results are shown to demonstrate the accuracy and capability of these methods.

Keywords

65N3035Q40Local discontinuous Galerkin method2D stationary Schrödinger equationquantum transport phenomenaquantum directional coupler

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , April 2014, pp. 1012 - 1028
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2014

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