Anderson Model out of equilibrium: decoherence effects in transport through a quantum dot

Details Anderson Model out of equilibrium: decoherence effects in transport through a quantum dot Anderson Model out of equilibrium: decoherence effects in transport through a quantum dot

2010-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/1001.3873v1

Phys. Rev. B 81, 165115 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

23 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.165115

The paper deals with the nonequilibrium two-lead Anderson model, considered as an adequate description for transport through a d-c biased quantum dot. Using a self-consistent equation-of-motion method generalized out of equilibrium, we calculate a fourth-order decoherence rate $\gamma^{(4)}$ induced by a bias voltage $V$. This decoherence rate provides a cut-off to the infrared divergences of the self-energy showing up in the Kondo regime. At low temperature, the Kondo peak in the density of states is split into two peaks pinned at the chemical potential of the two leads. The height of these peaks is controlled by $\gamma^{(4)}$. The voltage dependence of the differential conductance exhibits a zero-bias peak followed by a broad Coulomb peak at large $V$, reflecting charge fluctuations inside the dot. The low-bias differential conductance is found to be a universal function of the normalized bias voltage $V/T_K$, where $T_K$ is the Kondo temperature. The universal scaling with a single energy scale $T_K$ at low bias voltages is also observed for the renormalized decoherence rate $\gamma^{(4)}/T_K$. We discuss the effect of $\gamma^{(4)}$ on the crossover from strong to weak coupling regime when either the temperature or the bias voltage is increased.

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