New Numerical Results Indicate a Half-Filling SU(4) Kondo State in Carbon Nanotubes
Abstract
Numerical calculations simulate transport experiments in carbon nanotube quantum dots (P. Jarillo-Herrero et al., Nature 434, 484 (2005)), where a strongly enhanced Kondo temperature TK ~ 8K was associated with the SU(4) symmetry of the Hamiltonian at quarter-filling for an orbitally double-degenerate single-occupied electronic shell. Our results clearly suggest that the Kondo conductance measured for an adjacent shell with TK ~ 16K, interpreted as a singlet-triplet Kondo effect, can be associated instead to an SU(4) Kondo effect at half-filling. Besides presenting spin-charge Kondo screening similar to the quarter-filling SU(4), the half-filling SU(4) has been recently associated to very rich physical behavior, including a non-Fermi-liquid state (M. R. Galpin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 186406 (2005)).
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