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Ultrashort Space- and Time-Scales: Need for a Quantum Description

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Theory of Semiconductor Quantum Devices

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In Sect. 1.3 we have introduced the basic concepts of the semiclassical picture. In that formulation several assumptions were more or less explicitly made that require some considerations. As we shall see, the latter are not always justified in new-generation semiconductor nanomaterials and nanodevices, so that fully quantum-mechanical treatments of the problem are imperative.

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Rossi, F. (2011). Ultrashort Space- and Time-Scales: Need for a Quantum Description. In: Theory of Semiconductor Quantum Devices. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10556-2_2

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