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Kondo Effect in Multiple-Dot Systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the Kondo effect in multiple-dot systems for which the inter- as well as intra-dot Coulomb repulsions are strong, and the inter-dot tunneling is small. The application of the Ward-Takahashi identity to the inter-dot dynamical susceptibility enables us to analytically calculate the conductance for a double-dot system by using the Bethe-ansatz exact solution of the SU(4) impurity Anderson model. It is clarified how the inter-dot Kondo effect enhances or suppresses the conductance under the control of the gate voltage and the magnetic field. We then extend our analysis to multiple-dot systems including more than two dots, and discuss their characteristic transport properties by taking a triple-dot system as an example.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502413,
  title  = {Kondo Effect in Multiple-Dot Systems},
  author = {Rui Sakano and Norio Kawakami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502413},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 9 figures