Non-equilibrium scaling analysis of the Kondo model with voltage bias

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.01.004MaRDI QIDQ1018285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Fritsch, Stefan Kehrein

Publication date 19 May 2009

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0759

zbMATH Keywords

flow equationKondo modelnon-equilibriumscaling analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: The quintessential description of Kondo physics in equilibrium is obtained within a scaling picture that shows the buildup of Kondo screening at low temperature. For the non-equilibrium Kondo model with a voltage bias the key new feature are decoherence effects due to the current across the impurity. In the present paper we show how one can develop a consistent framework for studying the non-equilibrium Kondo model within a scaling picture of infinitesimal unitary transformations (flow equations). Decoherence effects appear naturally in third order of the beta-function and dominate the Hamiltonian flow for sufficiently large voltage bias. We work out the spin dynamics in non-equilibrium and compare it with finite temperature equilibrium results. In particular, we report on the behavior of the static spin susceptibility including leading logarithmic corrections and compare it with the celebrated equilibrium result as a function of temperature.

Review text

The paper deals with the quantum impurity model defined by the Kondo's with a dc-voltage bias which produces a stationary current. This system will be investigated around its non-equilibrium state by using the flow equation approach. The basic idea of this approach is to make a many-particle Hamiltonian increasingly more diagonal through a sequence of infinitesimal unitary transformation. The Kondo model with voltage bias, flow equation analysis and scaling picture of the Kondo model with voltage bias are successively considered. Then one shows how to use the time evolution with respect to the diagonal Hamiltonian to analyze the dynamics of some variables in the flow equation approach.

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