Abstract

Electron tunneling through quantum dots side coupled to a quantum wire, in equilibrium and nonequilibrium Kondo regime, is studied. The mean-field finite- U slave-boson formalism is used to obtain the solution of the problem. We have found that the transmission spectrum shows a structure with two antiresonances localized at the renormalized energies of the quantum dots. The density of states (DOS) of the system shows that when the Kondo correlations are dominant there are two Kondo regimes with its own Kondo temperature. The above behavior of the DOS can be explained by quantum interference in the transmission through the two different resonance states of the quantum dots coupled to common leads. This result is analogous to the Dicke effect in optics. We investigate the many-body Kondo states as a function of the parameters of the system. © 2006 The American Physical Society.