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Noise processes in nanomechanical resonators
Nanomechanical resonators can be fabricated to achieve high natural resonance frequencies, approaching 1 GHz, with quality factors in excess of 10^(4). These resonators are candidates for use as highly selective rf filters and as precision on-chip clocks. Some fundamental and some nonfundamental noise processes will present limits to the performance of such resonators. These include thermomechanical noise, Nyquist-Johnson noise, and adsorption-desorption noise; other important noise sources include those due to thermal fluctuations and defect motion-induced noise. In this article, we develop a self-contained formalism for treating these noise sources, and use it to estimate the impact that these noise processes will have on the noise of a model nanoscale resonator, consisting of a doubly clamped beam of single-crystal Si with a natural resonance frequency of 1 GHz
Quantum pumping in deformable quantum dots
The charge current pumped adiabatically through a deformable quantum dot is
studied within the Green's function approach. Differently from the
non-deformable case, the current shows an undefined parity with respect to the
pumping phase \phi. The unconventional current-phase relation, analyzed in the
weak pumping regime, is due to a dynamical phase shift \phi_D caused by the
elastic deformations of the central region (classical phonons). The role of the
quality factor Q of the oscillator, the effects induced by a mechanical
resonance and the implications for current experiments on molecular systems are
also discussed
Singlet-triplet relaxation induced by confined phonons in nanowire-based quantum dots
The singlet-triplet relaxation in nanowire-based quantum dots induced by
confined phonons is investigated theoretically. Due to the
quasi-one-dimensional nature of the confined phonons, the singlet-triplet
relaxation rates exhibit multi-peaks as function of magnetic field and the
relaxation rate between the singlet and the spin up triplet state is found to
be enhanced at the vicinity of the singlet-triplet anti-crossing. We compare
the effect of the deformation-potential coupling and the piezoelectric coupling
and find that the deformation-potential coupling dominates the relaxation rates
in most cases.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Mechanically probing coherent tunnelling in a double quantum dot
We study theoretically the interaction between the charge dynamics of a
few-electron double quantum dot and a capacitively-coupled AFM cantilever, a
setup realized in several recent experiments. We demonstrate that the
dot-induced frequency shift and damping of the cantilever can be used as a
sensitive probe of coherent inter-dot tunnelling, and that these effects can be
used to quantitatively extract both the magnitude of the coherent interdot
tunneling and (in some cases) the value of the double-dot T_1 time. We also
show how the adiabatic modulation of the double-dot eigenstates by the
cantilever motion leads to new effects compared to the single-dot case.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Electron-phonon coupling and longitudinal mechanical-mode cooling in a metallic nanowire
We investigate electron-phonon coupling in a narrow suspended metallic wire,
in which the phonon modes are restricted to one dimension but the electrons
behave three-dimensionally. Explicit theoretical results related to the known
bulk properties are derived. We find out that longitudinal vibration modes can
be cooled by electronic tunnel refrigeration far below the bath temperature
provided the mechanical quality factors of the modes are sufficiently high. The
obtained results apply to feasible experimental configurations.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figure
Phase rigidity breaking in open Aharonov-Bohm ring coupled to a cantilever
The conductance and the transmittance phase shifts of a two-terminal
Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring are analyzed in the presence of mechanical
displacements due to coupling to an external can- tilever. We show that phase
rigidity is broken, even in the linear response regime, by means of inelastic
scattering due to phonons. Our device provides a way of observing continuous
variation of the transmission phase through a two-terminal
nano-electro-mechanical system (NEMS). We also propose measurements of phase
shifts as a way to determine the strength of the electron-phonon coupling in
NEMS.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Asymmetric Franck-Condon factors in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots
Electronic states and vibrons in carbon nanotube quantum dots have in general
different location and size. As a consequence, the conventional
Anderson-Holstein model, coupling vibrons to the dot total charge only, may no
longer be appropriated in general. Here we explicitly address the role of the
spatial fluctuations of the electronic density, yielding space-dependent
Franck-Condon factors. We discuss the consequent marked effects on transport
which are compatible with recent measurements. This picture can be relevant for
tunneling experiments in generic nano-electromechanical systems.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figures (2 color, 1 BW
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