title: Kondo temperature in multilevel quantum dots.
abstract: We develop a general method to evaluate the Kondo temperature in a multilevel quantum dot that is weakly coupled to conducting leads. Our theory reveals that the Kondo temperature is strongly enhanced when the intradot energy-level spacing is comparable or smaller than the charging energy. We propose an experiment to test our result, which consists of measuring the size dependence of the Kondo temperature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.
authors.forename: Ion
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Garate
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Affleck