Nonequilibrium electron distribution in the presence of Kondo impurities
- 6 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 64 (3), 033301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.64.033301
Abstract
We study the energy relaxation of quasiparticles in voltage biased mesoscopic wires in the presence of magnetic impurities. The renormalization of the exchange interaction of Kondo impurities coupled to conduction electrons is extended to the case of a nonequilibrium electron distribution, which is determined self-consistently from a Boltzmann equation with a collision term due to Kondo impurity mediated electron-electron scattering. The approach leads to predictions in quantitative agreement with recent experiments by Pothier et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3490 (1997)].Keywords
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