Kondo effect in oscillating molecules

Details Kondo effect in oscillating molecules Kondo effect in oscillating molecules

2009-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/0905.2409v1

Phys. Status Solidi B 246, 994 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 p., Ustron'08 conference contribution

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We consider electronic transport through break-junctions bridged by a single molecule in the Kondo regime. We describe the system by a two-channel Anderson model. We take the tunneling matrix elements to depend on the position of the molecule. It is shown, that if the modulation of the tunneling by displacement is large, the potential confining the molecule to the central position between the leads is softened and the position of the molecule is increasingly susceptible to external perturbations that break the inversion symmetry. In this regime, the molecule is attracted to one of the leads and as a consequence the conductance is small. We argue on semi-classical grounds why the softening occurs and corroborate our findings by numerical examples obtained by Wilson's numerical renormalization group and Schoenhammer-Gunnarsson's variational method.

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