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We study the differential conductance in the Kondo regime of a quantum dot coupled to multiple leads. When the bias is applied symmetrically on two of the leads ($V$ and $-V$, as usual in experiments), while the others are grounded, the conductance through the biased leads always shows the expected enhancement at {it zero} bias. However, under asymmetrically applied bias ($V$ and $lambda V$, with $lambda>0$), a suppression - dip - appears in the differential conductance if the asymmetry coefficient $lambda$ is beyond a given threshold $lambda_0= sqrt[3]{1+r}$ determined by the ratio $r$ of the dot-leads couplings. This is a recipe to determine experimentally this ratio which is important for the quantum-dot devices. This finding is a direct result of the Keldysh transport formalism. For the illustration we use a many-lead Anderson Hamiltonian, the Green functions being calculated in the Lacroix approximation, which is generalized to the case of nonequilibrium.
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