  Coulomb drag between nanoscale conductors is of both fundamental and
practical interest. Here, we theoretically study drag in a double quantum-dot
(QD) system consisting of a biased drive QD and an unbiased drag QD coupled via
a direct interdot Coulomb interaction. We demonstrate that the Coulomb drag is
driven by the charge fluctuations in the drive QD, and show how the properties
of the associated quantum noise allow to distinguish it from, e.g., shot-noise
driven drag in circuits of weakly interacting quantum conductors. In the
strong-interaction regime exhibiting an orbital ("pseudospin") Kondo effect,
the drag is governed by charge fluctuations induced by pseudospin-flip
cotunneling processes. The quenching of pseudospin-flip processes by Kondo
correlations are found to suppress the drag at low bias and introduce a
zero-bias anomaly in the second-order differential transconductance. Finally,
we show that the drag is maximized for values of the interdot interaction
matching the lead couplings. Our findings are relevant for the understanding of
drag in QD systems and provide experimentally testable predictions in different
transport regimes.
