NRG Study of an Inversion-Symmetric Interacting Model: Universal Aspects of its Quantum Conductance

Abstract

We consider scattering of spinless fermions by an inversion-symmetric interacting model characterized by three parameters (interaction U, internal hopping t_d and coupling t_c). Mapping this spinless model onto an Anderson model with Zeeman field, we use thenumerical renormalization group for studying the particle-hole symmetric case. We show that the zero temperature limit is characterized by a line of free-fermion fixed points and a scale τ(U,t_c) of t_d for which there is perfect transmission. The quantum conductance and the low energy excitations of the model are given by universal functions of t_d/τif t_d < Γand of t_d/t_c^2 if t_d > Γ, Γ= t_c^2 being the level width of the scatterer. This universal regime becomes non-perturbative when U exceeds Γ.

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