We use the recently proposed scattering states numerical renormalization group (SNRG) approach to calculate I(V ) and the differential conductance through a single molecular level coupled to a local molecular phonon. We also discuss the equilibrium physics of the model and demonstrate that the low-energy Hamiltonian is given by an effective interacting resonant level model. From the NRG level flow, we directly extract the effective charge transfer scale Γ eff and the dynamically induced capacitive coupling U eff between the molecular level and the lead electrons which turns out to be proportional to the polaronic energy shift Ep for the regimes investigated here. The equilibrium spectral functions for the different parameter regimes are discussed. The additional phonon peaks at multiples of the phonon frequency ω0 correspond to additional maxima in the differential conductance. Non-equilibrium effects, however, lead to significant deviations between a symmetric junction and a junction in the tunnel regime. The suppression of the current for asymmetric junctions with increasing electron-phonon coupling, the hallmark of the Franck-Condon blockade, is discussed with a simple framework of a combination of (i) polaronic level shifts and (ii) the effective charge transfer scale Γ eff .
We use the scattering states numerical renormalization group (SNRG) approach to calculate the current I(V ) through a single molecular level coupled to a local molecular phonon. The suppression of I for asymmetric junctions with increasing electron-phonon coupling, the hallmark of the Franck-Condon blockade, is discussed. We compare the SNRG currents with recently published data obtained by an iterative summation of path integrals approach (ISPI). Our results excellently agree with the ISPI currents for small and intermediate voltages. In the linear response regime I(V ) approaches the current calculated from the equilibrium spectral function. We also present the temperature and voltage evolution of the non-equilibrium spectral functions for a particle-hole asymmetric junction with symmetric coupling to the lead.
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