Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-12-01
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Scientific paper
Boulat, Saleur and Schmitteckert (BSS) reported results on the full $I-V$ characteristics of the interacting resonant level model (IRLM) exhibiting region with unexpected negative differential conductance (NDC). Using time-dependent density matrix renormalization group complemented with the exact solution performed at a special point (the self-dual point) in the parameter space BSS have shown that at nonzero Coulomb interaction $U$ the current flowing through the impurity level (IL) exhibits a power-law asymptotics as a function of large applied bias voltage. Similar conclusion was earlier reached by Doyon. Even though their results are solid and supported by both analytic and numeric arguments, BSS concluded that "the NDC at large voltage seems a truly nonperturbative behavior, with unclear physical origin". On the contrary, the remarkable physics of NDC can be explained by simple physical arguments and, as we shall show in this Comment, in certain circumstances can be calculated in the framework of perturbation theory.
Borda Laszlo
Zawadowski Alfred
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