SU(4) and SU(2) Kondo Effects in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We study the SU(4) Kondo effect in carbon nanotube quantum dots, where doubly degenerate orbitals form 4-electron ``shells''. The SU(4) Kondo behavior is investigated for one, two and three electrons in the topmost shell. While the Kondo state of two electrons is quenched by magnetic field, in case of an odd number of electrons two types of SU(2) Kondo effect may survive. Namely, the spin SU(2) state is realized in the magnetic field parallel to the nanotube (inducing primarily orbital splitting). Application of the perpendicular field (inducing Zeeman splitting) results in the orbital SU(2) Kondo effect.
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@article{arxiv.0709.1288,
title = {SU(4) and SU(2) Kondo Effects in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots},
author = {A. Makarovski and A. Zhukov and J. Liu and G. Finkelstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1288},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages. Some material was previously posted in cond-mat/0608573, v2