Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2000-03-22
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
18 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.62.8154
We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot driven out of equilibrium by an external ac field. The Kondo effect can be probed by measuring the dc current induced by an auxiliary dc bias $V_{dc}$ applied across the dot. In the absence of ac perturbation, the corresponding differential conductance $G(V_{dc})$ is known to exhibit a sharp peak at $V_{dc}=0$, which is the manifestation of the Kondo effect. In the equilibrium, there exists only one energy scale, the Kondo temperature $T_K$, which controls all the low-energy physics of the system; $G$ is some universal function of $eV_{dc}/T_K$. We demonstrate that the dot out of equilibrium is also characterized by a universal behavior: conductance $G$ depends on the ac field only through two dimensionless parameters, which are the frequency $\omega$ and the amplitude of the ac perturbation, both divided by $T_K$. We find analytically the large- and small-frequency asymptotes of the universal dependence of $G$ on these parameters. The obtained results allow us to predict the behavior of the conductance in the crossover regime $\hbar\omega\sim T_K$.
Glazman Leonid I.
Kaminski Adam
Nazarov Yu. V.
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