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Quantum Shuttle in Phase Space
Abstract: We present a quantum theory of the shuttle instability in electronic transport through a nanostructure with a mechanical degree of freedom. A phase space formulation in terms of the Wigner function allows us to identify a crossover from the tunneling to the shuttling regime, thus extending the previously found classical results to the quantum domain.
Further, a new dynamical regime is discovered, where the shuttling is driven exclusively by the quantum noise.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2003 |
Pages: | 256801 |
ISSN: | 10797114 and 00319007 |
Types: | Journal article and Preprint article |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.256801 |
ORCIDs: | Jauho, Antti-Pekka |