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Universal out-of-equilibrium transport in Kondo-correlated quantum dots

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-08-26 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

It is shown that the lesser and greater self energies and Green functions calculated in a recent work on universal noequilibrium transport in interacting quantum dots [E. Mu\~noz, C. J. Bolech, and S. Kirchner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 016601 (2013)] are incorrect. The authors start from renormalized second-order perturbation theory in the Coulomb repulsion in the particle-hole symmetric impurity Anderson model. The reported lesser self-energy is compared with the correct one, and with an analytic result valid for small frequency and applied voltage. As a consequence of the mistakes, the conservation of the current is not established and the results are unreliable.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4069,
  title  = {Universal out-of-equilibrium transport in Kondo-correlated quantum dots},
  author = {A. A. Aligia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4069},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

1 page and a few lines, 1 figure, Comment on E. Mu\~noz, C. J. Bolech, and S. Kirchner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 016601 (2013). In version 3 further precisions are given regarding a simple mistake in the Letter (Ref. 2) and a comment to the use of Ward identities in Ref. 1 is added