1 3 Ju n 20 06 Transport theory for interacting electrons connected to reservoirs
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We describe microscopic theory for the quantum transport through finite interacting systems connected to noninteracting leads. It can be applied to small systems such as quantum dots, quantum wires, atomic chain, molecule, and so forth. The Keldysh formalism is introduced to study the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, and general properties of the nonequilibrium Green’s functions are provided. We apply the formulated to an out-of-equilibrium Anderson model that has been used widely for the Kondo effect in quantum dots. In the linear-response regime the Kubo formalism still has an advantage, because it relates the transport coefficients directly to the correlation functions defined with respect to the thermal equilibrium, and it has no ambiguities about a profile of the inner electric field. We introduce a many-body transmission coefficient, by which the dc conductance can be expressed in a Landauer-type form, quite generally. We also discuss transport properties of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, which has also been an active field of research in this decade.
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We describe microscopic theory for the quantum transport through finite interacting systems connected to noninteracting leads. It can be applied to small systems such as quantum dots, quantum wires, atomic chain, molecule, and so forth. The Keldysh formalism is introduced to study the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, and general properties of the nonequilibrium Green’s functions are p...
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