Pumping of vibrational excitations in a Coulomb blockaded suspended carbon nanotube

Abstract

Low-temperature transport spectroscopy measurements on a suspended few-hole carbon nanotube quantum dot are presented, showing a gate-dependent harmonic excitation spectrum which, strikingly, occurs in the Coulomb blockade regime. The quantized excitation energy corresponds to the scale expected for longitudinal vibrations of the nanotube. The electronic transport processes are identified as cotunnel-assisted sequential tunneling, resulting from non-equilibrium occupation of the mechanical mode. They appear only above a high-bias threshold at the scale of electronic nanotube excitations. We discuss models for the pumping process that explain the enhancement of the non-equilibrium occupation and show that it is connected to a subtle interplay between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom.

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