The Wigner Monte Carlo method for nanoelectronic devices

D Querlioz, P Dollfus, M Mouis - ISTE Wiley: London, UK, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
For many years, the semi-classical Boltzmann approach to transport in semiconductors has
been very successful in interpreting the physics of electron devices, in a fast evolving …

On the ability of the particle Monte Carlo technique to include quantum effects in nano-MOSFET simulation

D Querlioz, J Saint-Martin, K Huet… - IEEE transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report on the possibility of using particle-based Monte Carlo (MC)
techniques to incorporate all relevant quantum effects in the simulation of semiconductor …

Displacement Current in Classical and Quantum Systems

DK Ferry, X Oriols, R Eisenberg - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.13268, 2024 - arxiv.org
It is certain that electrical properties-whether slow (sec) or fast (nsec), even optical (fsec)-are
described by Maxwell's equations, and there are terms that depend on the rate of change of …

A study of quantum transport in end-of-roadmap DG-MOSFETs using a fully self-consistent Wigner Monte Carlo approach

D Querlioz, J Saint-Martin, VN Do… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present results of ultrascaled double-gate MOSFET operation and performance obtained
from a new self-consistent particle-based quantum Monte Carlo (MC) approach. The …

Research on the thermal generation mechanism and transfer characteristics in the thermoelectric transport process of MOSFET power devices

M Zhang, Z He, D Yang, J Liao, Y Liu, L Li - International Journal of Heat …, 2025 - Elsevier
With the size down and integration of power devices, the internal thermal management
problem has become particularly severe. Especially in the channel region, significant heat …

Kirchhoff's Current Law and the Continuity Equation

R Eisenberg - ScienceOpen Preprints, 2024 - scienceopen.com
Kirchhoff's current law says that current does not accumulate. The continuity equation says
that current does accumulate when currents and voltages vary. The continuity equation is …

On the use of complex band structure to study valley photovoltaics: toward efficient hot carrier extraction

DK Ferry, VR Whiteside… - Journal of Photonics for …, 2025 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Hot carrier solar cells were first proposed many decades ago. Over the intervening years,
there has been a continuing quest to create these cells, which hold promise to shatter the …

Single-qubit gates designed by means of the Madelung picture

M Bonilla–Licea, MB Estrada - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work the Madelung picture is applied to the single qubit systems. The projective
aspect of the Madelung quantities and the polar expression of the components of the …

Simulation of entanglement dynamics for scattering between a free and a bound carrier in a quantum wire

P Bordone, A Bertoni, C Jacoboni - Journal of Computational Electronics, 2004 - Springer
The decoherence of a quantum system is ascribed to its enetanglement with another system
considered as the environment, thus the quantitative evaluation of entanglement formation …

Wigner Transport in Linear Magnetic Fields: The Quantum Magnetic Term Effect

C Etl, M Ballicchia, M Nedjalkov… - 2024 IEEE 24th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling the single electron dynamics under the influence of an electromagnetic field is
important for next-generation electronic solid-state quantum systems for electron quantum …