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Self-consistent quantum-kinetic theory for interacting drifting electrons and force-driven phonons in a 1D system
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, United States of America.
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A self-consistent quantum-kinetic model is developed for studying strong-field nonlinear electron transport interacting with force-driven phonons within a nanowire system. For this model, phonons can be dragged into motion through strong electron-phonon scattering by fast-moving electrons along the opposite direction of the DC electric field. Meanwhile, the DC-field induced charge current of electrons can be either enhanced or reduced by the same electron-phonon scattering, depending on the relative direction of a DC field with respect to that of an applied temperature gradient for driving phonons. By making use of this quantum-kinetic model beyond the relaxation-time approximation, neither electron nor phonon temperature is required for describing ultrafast electron-phonon scattering and their correlated transports in this 1D electronic-lattice system.
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