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Published on: October 9, 2012
On the competition between the Kondo effect and the exchange interaction in a parallel double quantum dot system
Guo-Hui Ding1, Fei Ye2, Xiaoqun Wang1
1Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We study the competition between the Kondo effect and the exchange interaction in the parallel double quantum dot (DQD) system within an effective action field theory. The strong on-site Coulomb interactions in DQDs are treated by using the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation and the introduction of scalar potential fields. We show that a self-consistent perturbation approach, which takes into account the statistical properties of the potential fields acting on electrons in DQDs, describes well the crossover from the Kondo regime to the spin-singlet state in this system. The linear conductance and the intradot/interdot spin excitation spectra of this system are obtained.
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