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Two-color Fermi liquid theory for transport through a multilevel Kondo impurity

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-05-04 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We consider a quantum dot with K2{\cal K}{\geq} 2 orbital levels occupied by two electrons connected to two electric terminals. The generic model is given by a multi-level Anderson Hamiltonian. The weak-coupling theory at the particle-hole symmetric point is governed by a two-channel S=1S{=}1 Kondo model characterized by intrinsic channels asymmetry. Based on a conformal field theory approach we derived an effective Hamiltonian at a strong-coupling fixed point. The Hamiltonian capturing the low-energy physics of a two-stage Kondo screening represents the quantum impurity by a two-color local Fermi-liquid. Using non-equilibrium (Keldysh) perturbation theory around the strong-coupling fixed point we analyze the transport properties of the model at finite temperature, Zeeman magnetic field and source-drain voltage applied across the quantum dot. We compute the Fermi-liquid transport constants and discuss different universality classes associated with emergent symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.1802.00407,
  title  = {Two-color Fermi liquid theory for transport through a multilevel Kondo impurity},
  author = {D. B. Karki and Christophe Mora and Jan von Delft and Mikhail N. Kiselev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00407},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 13 figures