Static friction on the fly: velocity depinning transitions of lubricants in motion.
Phys Rev Lett
; 99(20): 206101, 2007 Nov 16.
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| ID: mdl-18233162
ABSTRACT
The dragging velocity of a model solid lubricant confined between sliding periodic substrates exhibits a phase transition between two regimes, respectively, with quantized and with continuous lubricant center-of-mass velocity. The transition, occurring for increasing external driving force F ext acting on the lubricant, displays a large hysteresis, and has the features of depinning transitions in static friction, only taking place on the fly. Although different in nature, this phenomenon appears isomorphic to a static Aubry depinning transition in a Frenkel-Kontorova model, the role of particles now taken by the moving kinks of the lubricant-substrate interface. We suggest a possible realization in 2D optical lattice experiments.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Phys Rev Lett
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Italy