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The Vlasov (or Liouville) equation of the previous chapter does not take into account short-range particle interactions, like collisions of the particles with other particles or with the crystal lattice. In this chapter, we extend the Vlasov equation to include scattering mechanisms which leads to the Boltzmann equation. We present only a phenomenological derivation. For rigorous results, we refer to [1, Sect. 1.5.3] and [2, Chap. 4].

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Jüngel, A. (2009). Scattering Models. In: Transport Equations for Semiconductors. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89526-8_4

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