Resonant and Kondo tunneling through molecular magnets

Details Resonant and Kondo tunneling through molecular magnets Resonant and Kondo tunneling through molecular magnets

2009-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0909.1956v2

Phys. Rev. B 81, 024421 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

13 pages, 5 figures, version as published

Scientific paper

Transport through molecular magnets is studied in the regime of strong coupling to the leads. We consider a resonant-tunneling model where the electron spin in a quantum dot or molecule is coupled to an additional local, anisotropic spin via exchange interaction. The two opposite regimes dominated by resonant tunneling and by Kondo transport, respectively, are considered. In the resonant-tunneling regime, the stationary state of the impurity spin is calculated for arbitrarily strong molecule-lead coupling using a master-equation approach, which treats the exchange interaction perturbatively. We find that the characteristic fine structure in the differential conductance persists even if the hybridization energy exceeds thermal energies. Transport in the Kondo regime is studied within a diagrammatic approach. We show that magnetic anisotropy gives rise to a splitting of the Kondo peak at low bias voltages.

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