Thursday 28.01.2010, 15:15-16:15 HS P.


CT-QMC+MEM Approach to an Effective Equilibrium Formulation of Steady-State Transport

Andreas Dirks, Uni. Goettingen

A recently proposed formalism[1] mapping strongly correlated finite-bias transport through a single quantum dot to infinitely many equilibrium models is reviewed. We find significant improvements in data quality by using continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo. A novel approach for the double analytic continuation required to obtain the non-equilibrium correlation functions from simulation data is introduced.
[1] Han et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236808