PERTURBATION OF TUNNELING PROCESSES BY MECHANICAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM IN MESOSCOPIC JUNCTIONS

被引:23
作者
SCHWABE, NF [1 ]
CLELAND, AN [1 ]
CROSS, MC [1 ]
ROUKES, ML [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV OXFORD,DEPT THEORET PHYS,OXFORD OX1 3NP,ENGLAND
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 52卷 / 17期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.52.12911
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We investigate the perturbation in the tunneling current caused by nonadiabatic mechanical motion in a mesoscopic tunnel junction. A theory introduced by Caroli et al. is used to evaluate second-order self-energy corrections for this nonequilibrium situation lacking translational invariance. Inelastic signatures of the mechanical degrees of freedom are found in the current-voltage I(V) characteristics. These give rise to sharp features in the derivative spectrum, d(2)I/dV(2).
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页码:12911 / 12920
页数:10
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