Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2005-11-08
Phy. Rev. B 73, 125108 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
8 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.125108
The ground-state properties of quartet quantum-dot arrays are studied using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method with a four-site Hubbard model connected to two non-interacting leads. Specifically, we calculate the conductance and local charge in the dots from the many-body phase shifts, which can be deduced from the fixed-point eigenvalues of NRG. As a function of the on-site energy $\epsilon_d$ which corresponds to the gate voltage, the conductance shows alternatively wide peak and valley. Simultaneously, the total number of electrons $N_{\rm el}$ in the four dots shows a quantized stair case behavior due to a large Coulomb interaction $U$. The conductance plateaus of the Unitary limit emerging for odd $N_{\rm el}$ are caused by the Kondo effect. The valleys of the conductance emerge for even $N_{\rm el}$, and their width becomes substantially large at half-filling. It can be regarded as a kind of the Mott-Hubbard insulating behavior manifesting in a small system. These structures of the plateaus and valleys become weak for large values of the hybridization strength $\Gamma$ between the chain and leads. We also discuss the parallel conductance for the array connected to four leads.
Nisikawa Yunori
Oguri Akira
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