SU(4) Fermi liquid state and spin filtering in a double quantum dot system.
We study a symmetrical double quantum dot (DD) system with strong capacitive interdot coupling using renormalization group methods. The dots are attached to separate leads, and there can be a weak tunneling between them. In the regime where there is a single electron on the DD the low-energy behavior is characterized by an SU(4)-symmetric Fermi liquid theory with entangled spin and charge Kondo correlations and a phase shift pi/4. Application of an external magnetic field gives rise to a large magnetoconductance and a crossover to a purely charge Kondo state in the charge sector with SU(2) symmetry. In a four-lead setup we find perfectly spin-polarized transmission.
Borda
László
L
Sektion Physik and Center for Nanoscience, LMU München, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 München, Germany.
Zaránd
Gergely
G
Hofstetter
Walter
W
Halperin
B I
BI
von Delft
Jan
J