Effect of the Kondo correlation on thermopower in a Quantum Dot

Details Effect of the Kondo correlation on thermopower in a Quantum Dot Effect of the Kondo correlation on thermopower in a Quantum Dot

2002-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207251v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in J Phys.: Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/14/45/316

In this paper we study the thermopower of a quantum dot connected to two leads in the presence of Kondo correlation by employing a modified second-order perturbation scheme at nonequilibrium. A simple scheme, Ng's ansatz [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 76}, 487 (1996)], is adopted to calculate nonequilibrium distribution Green's function and its validity is further checked with regard to the Onsager relation. Numerical results demonstrate that the sign of the thermopower can be changed by tuning the energy level of the quantum dot, leading to a oscillatory behavior with a suppressed magnitude due to the Kondo effect. We also calculate the thermal conductance of the system, and find that the Wiedemann-Franz law is obeyed at low temperature but violated with increasing temperature, corresponding to emerging and quenching of the Kondo effect.

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