Theory of non-equilibrium transport in the SU(N) Kondo regime

Christophe Mora, Pavel Vitushinsky, Xavier Leyronas, Aashish A. Clerk, Karyn Le Hur

Published 2009-06-15, updated 2009-11-23Version 2

Using a Fermi liquid approach, we provide a comprehensive treatment of the current and current noise through a quantum dot whose low-energy behaviour corresponds to an SU($N$) Kondo model, focusing on the case N=4 relevant to carbon nanotube dots. We show that for general $N$, one needs to consider the effects of higher-order Fermi liquid corrections even to describe low-voltage current and noise. We also show that the noise exhibits complex behaviour due to the interplay between coherent shot noise, and noise arising from interaction-induced scattering events. We treat various imperfections relevant to experiments, such as the effects of asymmetric dot-lead couplings.