Influence of Correlated Hybridization on the Conductance of Molecular Transistors

ORAL

Abstract

We study the spin-1/2 single-channel Anderson impurity model with correlated (occupancy dependent) hybridization for molecular transistors using the numerical renormalization-group method. Correlated hybridization can induce nonuniversal deviations in the normalized zero-bias conductance and, for some parameters, modestly enhance the spin polarization of currents in applied magnetic field. Correlated hybridization can also explain a gate-voltage dependence to the Kondo scale similar to what has been observed in recent experiments.

*This work was supported by the NSF International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (NSF Grant No. DMR-0645461), the U.S. Department of Energy office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Research, and the NIC, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich.

Authors

  • Jong-Chin Lin

    • University of California, Davis
  • Frithjof Anders

    • Universitat Bremen
  • Daniel Cox

    • University of California, Davis