https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00187-1
Dynamical electron transport through a nanoelectromechanical wire in a magnetic field
1
Department of Physics, Soongsil University, Seoul, 156-743, Korea
2
Department of Physics, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 305-764, Korea
Corresponding authors: a hyi@ssu.ac.kr - b ahnkh@cnu.ac.kr
Received:
12
January
2010
Revised:
1
April
2010
Published online:
22
June
2010
We investigate dynamical transport properties of interacting electrons moving in a vibrating nanoelectromechanical wire in a magnetic field. We have built an exactly solvable model in which the electron-electron interaction is considered nonperturbatively and the electric current and mechanical vibration are treated fully quantum mechanically on an equal footing. We demonstrate our theory by calculating the admittance of a finite-size wire, which is influenced by the magnetic field strength, the electron-electron interaction, and the complex interplay between the mechanical and the electrical energy scales. Nontrivial features including sharp resonance peaks appear in the admittance, which may be experimentally observable.
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