Effective equilibrium theory of nonequilibrium quantum transport

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.07.001zbMATH Open1235.82066arXiv1101.1526OpenAlexW2004271485MaRDI QIDQ654879FDOQ654879

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 23 December 2011

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

Abstract: The theoretical description of strongly correlated quantum systems out of equilibrium presents several challenges and a number of open questions persist. In this paper we focus on nonlinear electronic transport through an interacting quantum dot maintained at finite bias using a concept introduced by Hershfield [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2134 (1993)] whereby one can express such nonequilibrium quantum impurity models in terms of the system's Lippmann-Schwinger operators. These scattering operators allow one to reformulate the nonequilibrium problem as an effective equilibrium problem associated with a modified Hamiltonian. In this paper we provide a pedagogical analysis of the core concepts of the effective equilibrium theory. First, we demonstrate the equivalence between observables computed using the Schwinger-Keldysh framework and the effective equilibrium approach, and relate the Green's functions in the two theoretical frameworks. Second, we expound some applications of this method in the context of interacting quantum impurity models. We introduce a novel framework to treat effects of interactions perturbatively while capturing the entire dependence on the bias voltage. For the sake of concreteness, we employ the Anderson model as a prototype for this scheme. Working at the particle-hole symmetric point, we investigate the fate of the Abrikosov-Suhl resonance as a function of bias voltage and magnetic field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1526

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zbMATH Keywords

Anderson modelquantum dotsSchwinger-Keldysh formalismmany-body theoryAbrikosov-Suhl resonancenonequilibrium quantum transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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