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On the Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes at half halfing | | B. Babic
; T. Kontos
; C. Schoenenberger
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8 Jul 2004 | | Subject: | Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect | cond-mat.mes-hall | | Abstract: | In a single state of a quantum dot the Kondo effect arises due to the spin-degeneracy, which is present if the dot is occupied with one electron (N = 1). The eigenstates of a carbon nanotube quantum dot possess an additional orbital degeneracy leading to a four-fold shell pattern. This additional degeneracy increases the possibility for the Kondo effect to appear. We revisit the Kondo problem in metallic carbon nanotubes by linear and non-linear transport measurement in this regime, in which the four-fold pattern is present. We have analyzed the ground state of CNTs, which were grown by chemical vapor deposition, at filling N = 1, N = 2, and N = 3. Of particular interest is the half-filled shell, i.e. N = 2. In this case, the ground state is either a paired electron state or a state for which the singlet and triplet states are effectively degenerate, allowing in the latter case for the appearance of the Kondo effect. We deduce numbers for the effective missmatch d of the levels from perfect degeneracy and the exchange energy J. While d ~ 0.1 - 0.2 (in units of level spacing) is in agreement with previous work, the exchange term is found to be surprisingly small: J < 0.02. In addition we report on the observation of gaps, which in one case is seen at N = 3 and in another is present over an extended sequence of levels. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0407193 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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