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Slave boson theory for transport through magnetic molecules with vibronic states

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-01-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study the electron transport through a magnetic molecular transistor in the Kondo limit using the slave boson technique. We include the electron-phonon coupling and analyze the cases where the spin of the molecule is either S=1/2 or S=1. We use the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation to write down a low energy Hamiltonian for the system. In the presence of electron-phonon coupling, and for S\smeq1S\smeq1, the resulting Kondo Hamiltonian has two active channels. At low temperature, these two channels interfere destructively, leading to a zero conductance.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0242,
  title  = {Slave boson theory for transport through magnetic molecules with vibronic states},
  author = {M. D. Nuñez Regueiro and P. S. Cornaglia and Gonzalo Usaj and C. A. Balseiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0242},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures, to be published in PRB