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The Two-impurity Anderson Model Revisited: Competition between Kondo Effect and Reservoir-mediated Superexchange in Double Quantum Dots

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2011-03-31 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study a series-coupled double quantum dot in the Kondo regime modeled by the two-impurity Anderson model and find a new conduction-band mediated superexchange interaction that competes with Kondo physics in the strong Coulomb interaction limit. Our numerical renormalization group results, complemented with the higher-order Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory, show that the novel exchange mechanism leads to clear experimental consequences that can be checked in transport measurements through double quantum dots.

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@article{arxiv.0911.0959,
  title  = {The Two-impurity Anderson Model Revisited: Competition between Kondo Effect and Reservoir-mediated Superexchange in Double Quantum Dots},
  author = {Minchul Lee and Mahn-Soo Choi and Rosa Lopez and Ramon Aguado and Jan Martinek and Rok Zitko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0959},
  year   = {2011}
}