Stability of long-sustained oscillations induced by electron tunneling
Abstract
Self-oscillations are the result of an efficient mechanism generating periodic motion from a constant power source. In quantum devices, these oscillations may arise due to the interaction between single electron dynamics and mechanical motion. We show that, due to the complexity of this mechanism, these self-oscillations may irrupt, vanish, or exhibit a bistable behaviour causing hysteresis cycles. We observe these hysteresis cycles and characterize the stability of different regimes in both single and double quantum dot configurations. In particular cases, we find these oscillations stable for over 20 seconds, many orders of magnitude above electronic and mechanical characteristic timescales, revealing the robustness of the mechanism at play.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.04074,
title = {Stability of long-sustained oscillations induced by electron tunneling},
author = {Jorge Tabanera-Bravo and Florian Vigneau and Juliette Monsel and Kushagra Aggarwal and Léa Bresque and Federico Fedele and Federico Cerisola and G. A. D. Briggs and Janet Anders and Alexia Aufèves and Juan M. R. Parrondo and Natalia Ares},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04074},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Revised version: 13 pages, 12 figures, includes the complete paper and the Supplemental Material