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Nonequilibrium transport through magnetic vibrating molecules

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-15 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We calculate the nonequilibrium conductance through a molecule or a quantum dot in which the occupation of the relevant electronic level is coupled with intensity λ\lambda to a phonon mode, and also to two conducting leads. The system is described by the Anderson-Holstein Hamiltonian. We solve the problem using the Keldysh formalism and the non-crossing approximation (NCA) for both, the electron-electron and the electron-phonon interactions. We obtain a moderate decrease of the Kondo temperature TKT_K with λ\lambda for fixed renormalized energy of the localized level Ed~\tilde{E_d}. The meaning and value of Ed~\tilde{E_d} are discussed. The spectral density of localized electrons shows in addition to the Kondo peak of width 2TK2 T_K, satellites of this peak shifted by multiples of the phonon frequency ω0 \omega_0. The nonequilibrium conductance as a function of bias voltage VbV_b at small temperatures, also displays peaks at multiples of ω0\omega_0 in addition to the central dominant Kondo peak near Vb=0V_b=0.

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@article{arxiv.1305.3263,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium transport through magnetic vibrating molecules},
  author = {P. Roura-Bas and L. Tosi and A. A. Aligia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3263},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, 13 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. B

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