Quantum theory of magnetoelectromotive instability in nanoelectromechanical systems with positive differential conductance.
We consider dc-electronic transport through a nanowire suspended between two normal-metal leads in the presence of an external magnetic field. We show the very mechanism through which such a system, whose stationary current-voltage characteristic is essentially characterized by positive differential conductance, becomes unstable with respect to an onset of self-excited oscillations in electrical transport and mechanical vibrations. The self-excitation mechanism is based on the correlation between the occupancy of the quantized spin-split electronic energy levels inside the nanowire and the velocity of the nanowire with the crucial influence of strong enough retardation effects in magnetomotive coupling coming from mechanical vibrations.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10001 Zagreb, Croatia and Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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