The electrostatic interaction between two capacitively coupled metal double-dots is studied at low temperatures. Experiments show that when the Coulomb blockade is lifted by applying appropriate gate biases to both double-dots, the conductance through each double-dot becomes significantly lower than when only one doubledot is conducting. A master equation is derived for the system and the results obtained agree well with the experimental data. The model suggests that the conductance lowering in each double-dot is caused by a single-electron tunneling in the other double-dot. Here, each double-dot responds to the instantaneous, rather than average, potentials on the other double-dot. This leads to correlated electron motion within the system, where the position of a single electron in one double-dot controls the tunneling rate through the other doubledot. @S0163-1829~99!16347-1#
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