TY - GEN
T1 - Scaled ensemble Monte Carlo
AU - Kriman, Alfred M.
AU - Joshi, Ravindra P.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - We introduce a scaled ensemble Monte Carlo technique for the simulation of semiconductor plasmas at ultrashort times after excitation. The error, from counting statistics, can be decreased directly either by a computationally expensive increase in the number of simulation trajectories or by averaging over long times. The latter approach cannot be applied in studying ultrafast, far-from-equilibrium phenomena. The remaining alternative is to redistribute the computational effort to weight more heavily those regions with low densities. Scaled EMC uses ordinary EMC weighting, but simulates a different function, related by an energy- dependent scaling factor to the usual particle distribution. The simulation trajectories obey the same free-flight equations of motion as ordinary EMC, with no `splitting' of particles or iteration of trajectories. We describe simulations of modulation-doped GaAs structures under applied fields. G-, L- and X-valley carrier populations are determined across more than seven orders of magnitude in density, using only ten thousand simulation points, with fractionally small sampling error across a one-volt energy range. Using standard EMC with the same number of points, sampling statistics necessarily limits the range of simulable densities to less than four decades overall.
AB - We introduce a scaled ensemble Monte Carlo technique for the simulation of semiconductor plasmas at ultrashort times after excitation. The error, from counting statistics, can be decreased directly either by a computationally expensive increase in the number of simulation trajectories or by averaging over long times. The latter approach cannot be applied in studying ultrafast, far-from-equilibrium phenomena. The remaining alternative is to redistribute the computational effort to weight more heavily those regions with low densities. Scaled EMC uses ordinary EMC weighting, but simulates a different function, related by an energy- dependent scaling factor to the usual particle distribution. The simulation trajectories obey the same free-flight equations of motion as ordinary EMC, with no `splitting' of particles or iteration of trajectories. We describe simulations of modulation-doped GaAs structures under applied fields. G-, L- and X-valley carrier populations are determined across more than seven orders of magnitude in density, using only ten thousand simulation points, with fractionally small sampling error across a one-volt energy range. Using standard EMC with the same number of points, sampling statistics necessarily limits the range of simulable densities to less than four decades overall.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0028735541
SN - 0819414379
SN - 9780819414373
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SP - 278
EP - 285
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
A2 - Ferry, David K.
A2 - van Driel, Henry M.
Y2 - 27 January 1994 through 28 January 1994
ER -