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pi-Junction behavior and Andreev bound states in Kondo quantum dots with superconducting leads
We investigate the temperature- and coupling-dependent transport through
Kondo dot contacts with symmetric superconducting s-wave leads. For finite
temperature T we use a superconducting extension of a selfconsistent auxiliary
boson scheme, termed SNCA, while at T=0 a perturbative renormalization group
treatment is applied. The finite-temperature phase diagram for the 0--pi
transition of the Josephson current in the junction is established and related
to the phase-dependent position of the subgap Kondo resonance with respect to
the Fermi energy. The conductance of the contact is evaluated in the zero-bias
limit. It approaches zero in the low-temperature regime, however, at finite T
its characteristics are changed through the coupling- and temperature-dependent
0--pi transition.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
Nonequilibrium Transport through a Kondo Dot: Decoherence Effects
We investigate the effects of voltage induced spin-relaxation in a quantum
dot in the Kondo regime. Using nonequilibrium perturbation theory, we determine
the joint effect of self-energy and vertex corrections to the conduction
electron T-matrix in the limit of transport voltage much larger than
temperature. The logarithmic divergences, developing near the different
chemical potentials of the leads, are found to be cut off by spin-relaxation
rates, implying that the nonequilibrium Kondo-problem remains at weak coupling
as long as voltage is much larger than the Kondo temperature.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Diagrammatic theory of the Anderson impurity model with finite Coulomb interaction
We have developed a self-consistent conserving pseudo particle approximation
for the Anderson impurity model with finite Coulomb interaction, derivable from
a Luttinger Ward functional. It contains an infinite series of skeleton
diagrams built out of fully renormalized Green's functions. The choice of
diagrams is motivated by the Schrieffer Wolff transformation which shows that
singly and doubly occupied states should appear in all bare diagrams
symmetrically. Our numerical results for are in excellent agreement with
the exact values known from the Bethe ansatz solution. The low energy physics
of non-Fermi liquid Anderson impurity systems is correctly described while the
present approximation fails to describe Fermi liquid systems, since some
important coherent spin flip and charge transfer processes are not yet
included. It is believed that CTMA (Conserving T-matrix approximation) diagrams
will recover also Fermi liquid behavior for Anderson models with finite Coulomb
interaction as they do for infinite Coulomb interaction.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop
on "Size Dependent MAgnetic Scattering", Pecs, Hungary, May 28 - June 1, 200
Vertex correction and Ward identity in the U(1) gauge theory with Fermi surface
We show that introduction of vertex corrections in the fully self-consistent
ladder approximation does not modify dynamics of spinons and gauge fluctuations
in the U(1) gauge theory with Fermi surface
Non Equilibrium Noise as a Probe of the Kondo Effect in Mesoscopic Wires
We study the non-equilibrium noise in mesoscopic diffusive wires hosting
magnetic impurities. We find that the shot-noise to current ratio develops a
peak at intermediate source-drain biases of the order of the Kondo temperature.
The enhanced impurity contribution at intermediate biases is also manifested in
the effective distribution. The predicted peak represents increased inelastic
scattering rate at the non-equilibrium Kondo crossover.Comment: 4+ pages, 4 figures, published versio
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