Kondo Effects in Carbon Nanotubes: From SU(4) to SU(2) symmetry

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2006-08-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608110v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

17 pages, 15 figures; Updated references, fig13 corrected, typos corrected; to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.205119

We study the Kondo effect in a single-electron transistor device realized in a single-wall carbon nanotube. The K-K' double orbital degeneracy of a nanotube, which originates from the peculiar two-dimensional band structure of graphene, plays the role of a pseudo-spin. Screening of this pseudo-spin, together with the real spin, can result in an SU(4) Kondo effect at low temperatures. For such an exotic Kondo effect to arise, it is crucial that this orbital quantum number is conserved during tunneling. Experimentally, this conservation is not obvious and some mixing in the orbital channel may occur. Here we investigate in detail the role of mixing and asymmetry in the tunneling coupling and analyze how different Kondo effects, from the SU(4) symmetry to a two-level SU(2) symmetry, emerge depending on the mixing and/or asymmetry. We use four different theoretical approaches to address both the linear and non-linear conductance for different values of the external magnetic field. Our results point out clearly the experimental conditions to observe exclusively SU(4) Kondo physics. Although we focus on nanotube quantum dots, our results also apply to vertical quantum dots. We also mention that a finite amount of orbital mixing corresponds, in the pseudospin language, to having non-collinear leads with respect to the orbital ''magnetization'' axis which defines the two pseudospin orientations in the nanotube quantum dot. In this sense, some of our results are also relevant to the problem of a Kondo quantum dot coupled to non-collinear ferromagnetic leads.

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