We consider a model inspired by a metal break junction hypothetically caught at its breaking point, where the nonadiabatic center-of-mass motion of the bridging atom can be treated as a two-level system. By means of numerical renormalization group (NRG) we calculate the influence of the two-level system on the ballistic conductance across the bridge atom. The results are shown to be fully consistent with a conformal field theory treatment. We find that the conductance calculated by coupling Fermi-liquid theory to our NRG is always finite and fractional at zero temperature but drops quite fast as the temperature increases.

Two-level physics in a model metallic break junction / Lucignano, P; Santoro, Giuseppe Ernesto; Fabrizio, Michele; Tosatti, E.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS. - ISSN 1098-0121. - 78:15(2008). [10.1103/PhysRevB.78.155418]

Two-level physics in a model metallic break junction

Santoro, Giuseppe Ernesto;Fabrizio, Michele;
2008-01-01

Abstract

We consider a model inspired by a metal break junction hypothetically caught at its breaking point, where the nonadiabatic center-of-mass motion of the bridging atom can be treated as a two-level system. By means of numerical renormalization group (NRG) we calculate the influence of the two-level system on the ballistic conductance across the bridge atom. The results are shown to be fully consistent with a conformal field theory treatment. We find that the conductance calculated by coupling Fermi-liquid theory to our NRG is always finite and fractional at zero temperature but drops quite fast as the temperature increases.
2008
78
15
155418
Lucignano, P; Santoro, Giuseppe Ernesto; Fabrizio, Michele; Tosatti, E.
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