  Numerical calculations simulate transport experiments in carbon nanotube
quantum dots (P. Jarillo-Herrero et al., Nature 434, 484 (2005)), where a
strongly enhanced Kondo temperature T_K ~ 8K was associated with the SU(4)
symmetry of the Hamiltonian at quarter-filling for an orbitally
double-degenerate single-occupied electronic shell. Our results clearly suggest
that the Kondo conductance measured for an adjacent shell with T_K ~ 16K,
interpreted as a singlet-triplet Kondo effect, can be associated instead to an
SU(4) Kondo effect at half-filling. Besides presenting spin-charge Kondo
screening similar to the quarter-filling SU(4), the half-filling SU(4) has been
recently associated to very rich physical behavior, including a
non-Fermi-liquid state (M. R. Galpin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 186406
(2005)).
