Full counting statistics of nano-electromechanical systems
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We develop a theory for the full counting statistics (FCS) for a class of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), describable by a Markovian generalized master equation. The theory is applied to two specific examples of current interest: vibrating C60 molecules and quantum shuttles. We report a numerical evaluation of the first three cumulants for the C60-setup; for the quantum shuttle we use the third cumulant to substantiate that the giant enhancement in noise observed at the shuttling transition is due to a slow switching between two competing conduction channels. Especially the last example illustrates the power of the FCS.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410322,
title = {Full counting statistics of nano-electromechanical systems},
author = {Christian Flindt and Tomas Novotny and Antti-Pekka Jauho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410322},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures; minor changes - final version as published in Europhys. Lett