A renormalization group approach to time dependent transport through correlated quantum dots

TL;DR

This paper develops a real-time functional renormalization group method to analyze nonequilibrium transport and relaxation dynamics in correlated quantum dot systems, covering transient to steady states.

Contribution

It introduces a novel real-time RG approach capable of studying time-dependent and nonequilibrium phenomena in quantum dots with correlation effects.

Findings

Successfully applied to the interacting resonant level model for relaxation dynamics.

Analyzed decoherence and relaxation in the ohmic spin-boson model via mapping.

Method handles all time regimes from transient to steady state.

Abstract

We introduce a real time version of the functional renormalization group which allows to study correlation effects on nonequilibrium transport through quantum dots. Our method is equally capable to address (i) the relaxation out of a nonequilibrium initial state into a (potentially) steady state driven by a bias voltage and (ii) the dynamics governed by an explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonian. All time regimes from transient to asymptotic can be tackled; the only approximation is the consistent truncation of the flow equations at a given order. As an application we investigate the relaxation dynamics of the interacting resonant level model which describes a fermionic quantum dot dominated by charge fluctuations. Moreover, we study decoherence and relaxation phenomena within the ohmic spin-boson model by mapping the latter to the interacting resonant level model.