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The diffusion limit of the Boltzmann equation of semiconductors is analyzed. The dominant collisions are the elastic collisions on one hand and the electron–electron collisions with the Pauli exclusion terms on the other hand. Under a nondegeneracy hypothesis on the distribution function, a lower bound of the entropy dissipation rate of the leading term of the Boltzmann kernel for semiconductors in terms of a distance to the space of Fermi–Dirac functions is proved. This estimate and a mean compactness lemma are used to prove the convergence of the solution of the Boltzmann equation to a solution of the energy transport model.
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Abdallah, N.B., Desvillettes, L. & Génieys, S. On the Convergence of the Boltzmann Equation for Semiconductors Toward the Energy Transport Model. Journal of Statistical Physics 98, 835–870 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018635827617
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