%0 Journal Article
%T Rigorous drift-diffusion asymptotics of a high-field quantum transport equation
%A Chiara Manzini
%A Giovanni Frosali
%J Mathematics
%D 2006
%I arXiv
%X The asymptotic analysis of a linear high-field Wigner-BGK equation is developped by a modified Chapman-Enskog procedure. By an expansion of the unknown Wigner function in powers of the Knudsen number $\epsilon$, evolution equations are derived for the terms of zeroth and first order in $\epsilon$. In particular, it is obtained a quantum drift-diffusion equation for the position density, which is corrected by field-dependent terms of order $\epsilon$. Well-posedness and regularity of the approximate problems are established, and it is proved that the difference between exact and asymptotic solutions is of order $\epsilon ^2$, uniformly in time and for arbitrary initial data.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0612040v1