GW approach to electron-electron interactions within the Anderson impurity model: Kondo correlated quantum transport through two coupled molecules

Abstract

We invoke the nonequilibrium self-consistent GW method within the Anderson impurity model to investigate the dynamical effects occurring in a nanojunction comprised of two coupled molecules. Contrary to the previous single impurity model calculations based on the GW approximation, we observe that the density of states manages to capture both the Kondo resonance and the Breit-Wigner resonances associated with the HOMO and LUMO levels of the molecule. Moreover, the prominence of the Kondo resonance grows dramatically upon switching from the intermediate to the weak coupling regime involving largeU/G values. The conductance is calculated as a function of the HOMO level and the applied bias across the molecular nanojunction. Calculated conductance curves deviate from the monotonic decay behaviour as a function of the bias when the half-filling condition is not met. The importance of the effect of the molecule-molecule coupling for the electron transport phenomena is also investigated.