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JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Volume 74, Issue 1, Pages 118-126Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.118
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Kondo effect; quantum dots; non-equilibrium; decoherence; perturbative renormalization group
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While the properties of the Kondo model in equilibrium are very well understood, much less is known for Kondo systems out of equilibrium. We study the properties of a quantum dot in the Kondo regime, when a large bias voltage V and/or a large magnetic field B is applied. Using the perturbative renormalization group generalized to stationary nonequilibrium situations, we calculate renormalized couplings, keeping their important energy dependence. We show that in a magnetic field the spin occupation of the quantum dot is non-thermal, being controlled by V and B in a complex way to be calculated by solving a quantum Boltzmann equation. We find that the well-known suppression of the Kondo effect at finite V much greater than T-K (Kondo temperature) is caused by inelastic dephasing processes induced by the current through the dot. We calculate the corresponding decoherence rate, which serves to cut off the RG flow usually well inside the perturbative regime (with possible exceptions). As a consequence, the differential conductance, the local magnetization, the spin relaxation rates and the local spectral function may be calculated for large V, B much greater than T-K in a controlled way.
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