Vibrational Sidebands and the Kondo Effect in Molecular Transistors

Jens Paaske, Karsten Flensberg
2005 Physical Review Letters  
Electron transport through molecular quantum dots coupled to a single vibrational mode is studied in the Kondo regime. We apply a generalized Schrieffer-Wolff transformation to determine the effective low-energy spin-spin-vibron-interaction. From this model we calculate the nonlinear conductance and find Kondo sidebands located at bias-voltages equal to multiples of the vibron frequency. Due to selection rules, the side-peaks are found to have strong gate-voltage dependences, which can be
more » ... experimentally. In the limit of weak electron-vibron coupling, we employ a perturbative renormalization group scheme to calculate analytically the nonlinear conductance.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.176801 pmid:15904323 fatcat:g34ku5mywvfxlj4ded2f6pgfj4