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Kondo Temperature in Multilevel Quantum Dots

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-05-20 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We develop a general method to evaluate the Kondo temperature in a multilevel quantum dot that is weakly coupled to conducting leads. Our theory reveals that the Kondo temperature is strongly enhanced when the intradot energy-level spacing is comparable to or smaller than the charging energy. We propose an experiment to test our result, which consists of measuring the size-dependence of the Kondo temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5472,
  title  = {Kondo Temperature in Multilevel Quantum Dots},
  author = {Ion Garate and Ian Affleck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5472},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure and supplementary material. Revised and improved version, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

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