Ultrasensitive displacement noise measurement of carbon nanotube mechanical resonators

SL De Bonis, C Urgell, W Yang, C Samanta… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Mechanical resonators based on a single carbon nanotube are exceptional sensors of mass
and force. The force sensitivity in these ultralight resonators is often limited by the noise in …

Phase-coherent dynamics of quantum devices with local interactions

M Filippone, A Marguerite, K Le Hur, G Fève, C Mora - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
This review illustrates how Local Fermi Liquid (LFL) theories describe the strongly correlated
and coherent low-energy dynamics of quantum dot devices. This approach consists in an …

Ultrastrong coupling between electron tunneling and mechanical motion

F Vigneau, J Monsel, J Tabanera, K Aggarwal… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The ultrastrong coupling of single-electron tunneling and nanomechanical motion opens
exciting opportunities to explore fundamental questions and develop new platforms for …

Current-induced atomic motion, structural instabilities, and negative temperatures on molecule-electrode interfaces in electronic junctions

RJ Preston, VF Kershaw, DS Kosov - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Molecule-electrode interfaces in molecular electronic junctions are prone to chemical
reactions, structural changes, and localized heating effects caused by electric current. These …

Mechanical signatures of the current blockade instability in suspended carbon nanotubes

G Micchi, R Avriller, F Pistolesi - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
Transport measurements allow sensitive detection of nanomechanical motion of suspended
carbon nanotubes. It has been predicted that when the electromechanical coupling is …

Transient dynamics in interacting nanojunctions within self-consistent perturbation theory

RS Souto, R Avriller, AL Yeyati… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of the transient electronic and transport properties of a nanojunction
in the presence of electron–electron and electron–phonon interactions. We introduce a …

Bistability and displacement fluctuations in a quantum nanomechanical oscillator

R Avriller, B Murr, F Pistolesi - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Remarkable features have been predicted for the mechanical fluctuations at the bistability
transition of a classical oscillator coupled capacitively to a quantum dot [Micchi, Phys. Rev …

Charge-vibration interaction effects in normal-superconductor quantum dots

P Stadler, W Belzig, G Rastelli - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We study the quantum transport and the nonequilibrium vibrational states of a quantum dot
embedded between a normal-conducting and a superconducting lead with the charge on …

Sensitivity of mixing-current technique to detect nanomechanical motion

Y Wang, F Pistolesi - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Detection of nanomechanical displacement by transport techniques has reached a high
level of sensitivity and versatility. In order to detect the amplitude of oscillation of a …

Numerical study of duffing nonlinearity in the quantum dot embedded nanomechanical resonator

Y Wang, G Bary, R Ahmad, D Yin, S Xie… - Mathematical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geometry, electrostatics, and single‐electron tunneling contribute to the nonlinearity in the
quantum dot embedded nanomechanical resonator, while “Duffing term” is a kind of …