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Density functional description of Coulomb blockade: Adiabatic or dynamic exchange-correlation?

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-07-30 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Above the Kondo temperature, the Kohn-Sham zero-bias conductance of an Anderson junction has been shown to completely miss the Coulomb blockade. Within a standard model for the spectral function, we deduce a parameterization for both the onsite exchange-correlation potential and the bias drop as a function of the site occupation that applies for all correlation strengths. We use our results to sow doubt on the common interpretation of such corrections as arising from dynamical exchange-correlation contributions.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06222,
  title  = {Density functional description of Coulomb blockade: Adiabatic or dynamic exchange-correlation?},
  author = {Zhenfei Liu and Kieron Burke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06222},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

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