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Universality of the Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot out of Equilibrium

arXiv:cond-mat/0003353 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.62.8154

Abstract

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot driven out of equilibrium by an external ac field. The Kondo effect can be probed by measuring the dc current induced by an auxiliary dc bias applied across the dot. In the absence of ac perturbation, the corresponding differential conductance is known to exhibit a sharp peak at , which is the manifestation of the Kondo effect. In the equilibrium, there exists only one energy scale, the Kondo temperature , which controls all the low-energy physics of the system; is some universal function of . We demonstrate that the dot out of equilibrium is also characterized by a universal behavior: conductance depends on the ac field only through two dimensionless parameters, which are the frequency and the amplitude of the ac perturbation, both divided by . We find analytically the large- and small-frequency asymptotes of the universal dependence of on these parameters. The obtained results allow us to predict the behavior of the conductance in the crossover regime .

18 pages, 5 figures

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