Quantum Noise in the Electromechanical Shuttle

D. Wahyu Utami, Hsi-Sheng Goan, C. A. Holmes, G. J. Milburn

Published 2005-09-28Version 1

We consider a type of Quantum Electro-Mechanical System, known as the shuttle system, first proposed by Gorelik et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 4526, (1998)]. We use a quantum master equation treatment and compare the semi-classical solution to a full quantum simulation to reveal the dynamics, followed by a discussion of the current noise of the system. The transition between tunnelling and shuttling regime can be measured directly in the spectrum of the noise.