The Anderson impurity model out of equilibrium: Assessing the accuracy of simulation techniques with an exact current-occupation relation
arXiv:1704.00121 · doi:10.1063/1.4996562
Abstract
We study the interacting, symmetrically coupled single impurity Anderson model. By employing the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism, we establish an exact relationship between the steady-state charge current flowing through the impurity (dot) and its occupation. We argue that the steady state current-occupation relation can be used to assess the consistency of simulation techniques, and identify spurious transport phenomena. We test this relation in two different model variants: First, we study the Anderson-Holstein model in the strong electron-vibration coupling limit using the polaronic quantum master equation method. We find that the current-occupation relation is violated numerically in standard calculations, with simulations bringing up incorrect transport effects. Using a numerical procedure, we resolve the problem efficiently. Second, we simulate the Anderson model with electron-electron interaction on the dot using a deterministic numerically-exact time-evolution scheme. Here, we observe that the current-occupation relation is satisfied in the steady-state limit---even before results converge to the exact limit.
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