Out-of-Equilibrium Properties and Nonlinear Effects for Interacting Quantum Impurity Systems in the Strong-Coupling Regime

Abstract

We provide an exact description of out-of-equilibrium fixed points in quantum impurity models that is able to treat time-dependent forcing. Building on this, we then show that analytical out-of-equilibrium results that exactly treat interactions can be obtained in interacting quantum impurity models in their strong-coupling regime, provided they are integrable at equilibrium and they are ``super Fermi liquids''; i.e., they only allow for integer charge hopping. For such systems we build an out-of-equilibrium strong-coupling expansion, akin to a Sommerfeld expansion in interacting systems. We apply our approach to the interacting resonant level model, and obtain the exact expansion around the low energy fixed point of the universal scaling function for the charge current as a function of voltage, temperature, and frequency, up to order 7.