In order to consider quantum transport under the influence of an electron-electron(e-e) interaction in a mesoscopic conductor,the Boltzmann equation and Poisson equation are investigated jointly.The analytical expressions of the distribution function for the Boltzmann equation and the self-consistent average potential concerned with e-e interaction are obtained,and the dielectric function appearing in the self-consistent average potential is naturally generalized beyond the Thomas-Fermi approximation.Then we apply these results to the tunneling junctions of a metal-insulator-semiconductor(MIS) in which the electrons are accumulated near the interface of the semiconductor,and we find that the e-e interaction plays an important role in the transport procedure of this system.The electronic density,electric current as well as screening Coulombic potential in this case are studied,and we reveal the time and position dependence of these physical quantities explicitly affected by the e-e interaction.
We present the lowest order quantum correction to the semiclassical Boltzmann distribution function,and the equation satisfied by this correction is given. Our equation for the quantum correction is obtained from the conventional quantum Boltzmann equation by explicitly expressing the Planck constant in the gradient approximation,and the quantum Wigner distribution function is expanded in pow-ers of Planck constant,too. The negative quantum correlation in the Wigner dis-tribution function which is just the quantum correction terms is naturally singled out,thus obviating the need for the Husimi’s coarse grain averaging that is usually done to remove the negative quantum part of the Wigner distribution function. We also discuss the classical limit of quantum thermodynamic entropy in the above framework.
