Replicas of the Kondo peak due to electron-vibration interaction in molecular transport properties

P Roura-Bas, L Tosi, AA Aligia - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Physical Review B, 2016APS
The low temperature properties of single level molecular quantum dots including both
electron-electron and electron-vibration interactions, are theoretically investigated. The
calculated differential conductance in the Kondo regime exhibits not only the zero bias
anomaly but also side peaks located at bias voltages which coincide with multiples of the
energy of vibronic mode V∼ ℏ Ω/e. We obtain that the evolution with temperature of the two
main satellite conductance peaks follows the corresponding one of the Kondo peak when ℏ …
The low temperature properties of single level molecular quantum dots including both electron-electron and electron-vibration interactions, are theoretically investigated. The calculated differential conductance in the Kondo regime exhibits not only the zero bias anomaly but also side peaks located at bias voltages which coincide with multiples of the energy of vibronic mode . We obtain that the evolution with temperature of the two main satellite conductance peaks follows the corresponding one of the Kondo peak when being the Kondo temperature, in agreement with recent transport measurements in molecular junctions. However, we find that this is no longer valid when is of the order of a few times .
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