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Anti-Kondo regime of charge transport through a double dot molecule

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

The conductance through a serial double dot structure for which the inter-dot tunneling is stronger than the tunneling to the leads is studied using the numerical density matrix renormalization group method and analytic arguments. When the dots are occupied by 1 or 3 electrons the usual Kondo peak is obtained. For the case in which 2 electrons occupy the molecule a singlet is formed. Nevertheless, the conductance in that case has a constant non-zero value, and might even be equal to the maximum conductance of 2e2/h2 e^2/h for certain values of the molecule parameters. We show that this is the result of the subtle interplay between the symmetric and anti-symmetric orbitals of the molecule caused by interactions and interference.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610466,
  title  = {Anti-Kondo regime of charge transport through a double dot molecule},
  author = {Richard Berkovits and Boris Altshuler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610466},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures (typos corrected)