Cotunneling renormalization in carbon nanotube quantum dots

Abstract

We determine the level-shifts induced by cotunneling in a Coulomb blockaded carbon nanotube quantum dot using leading order quasi-degenerate perturbation theory within a single nanotube quartet. It is demonstrated that otherwise degenerate and equally tunnel-coupled $K$ and $K^{\prime }$ states are mixed by cotunneling and therefore split up in energy except at the particle/hole-symmetric midpoints of the Coulomb diamonds. In the presence of an external magnetic field, we show that cotunneling induces a gate-dependent $g$-factor renormalization, and we outline different scenarios which might be observed experimentally, depending on the values of both intrinsic $K{K}^{\prime }$ splitting and spin-orbit coupling.

12 pages, 7 figures

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