A detailed study of the low-temperature physics of an interacting double quantum dot system in a T-shape configuration is presented. Each quantum dot is modeled by a single Anderson impurity and we include an interdot electron-electron interaction to account for capacitive coupling that may arise due to the proximity of the quantum dots. By employing a numerical renormalization group approach to a multi-impurity Anderson model, we study the thermodynamical and transport properties of the system in and out of the Kondo regime. We find that the two-stage Kondo effect reported in previous works is drastically affected by the interdot Coulomb repulsion. In particular, we find that the Kondo temperature for the second stage of the two-stage Kondo effect increases exponentially with the interdot Coulomb repulsion, providing a possible path for its experimental observation.

• Received 11 July 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.205320