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Mesoscopic Kondo effect of a quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm ring with intradot spin-flip scattering

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot embedded in a mesoscopic ring taking into account intradot spin-flip scattering RR. Based on the finite-UU slave-boson mean-field approach, we find that the Kondo peak in the density of states is split into two peaks by this coherent spin-flip transition, which is responsible for some interesting features of the Kondo-assisted persistent current circulating the ring: (1) strong suppression and crossover to a sine function form with increasing RR; (2) appearance of a "hump" in the RR-dependent behavior for odd parity. RR-induced reverse of the persistent current direction is also observed for odd parity.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405538,
  title  = {Mesoscopic Kondo effect of a quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm ring with intradot spin-flip scattering},
  author = {Bing Dong and G. H. Ding and H. L. Cui and X. L. Lei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405538},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages,6 figures, to be published by Europhys. Lett