Abstract

We investigate electronic- and spin transport through a single level quantum dot with magnetic impurity in a symmetric forward bias setup. On the quantum dot, electrons either interact with each other due to Coulomb interaction or with the spin 1/2 magnetic impurity. For certain configurations, the tunnel coupling to the leads induces an exponential relaxation of the impurity spin, which has been prepared in a polarized state initially. Furthermore, we study the influence of the nonequilibrium transport current on the relaxation dynamics. We obtain the respective numerical result by means of the iterative summation of path integral (ISPI) scheme. Within this approach, observables of interest are calculated from a functional derivative with respect to appropriate source terms in the Keldysh partition function. The real-time path integral extends over all possible paths (i) of the impurity spin and (ii) of the Ising like fluctuating spin fields we have to introduce in order to decouple the quartic interaction term of the Anderson model. The ISPI scheme allows us to sum up all paths including the time non-local self energies of the leads.

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