Stick-slip friction and nucleation dynamics of ultra-thin liquid films
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- 12 January 2001
Abstract
We develop the theory for stick-slip motion in ultra-thin liquid films confined between two moving atomically-flat surfaces. Our model is based on hydrodynamic equation for the flow coupled to the dynamic order parameter field describing the ``shear melting and freezing'' of the confined fluid. This model successfully accounts for observed phenomenology of friction in ultra-thin films, including periodic and chaotic sequences of slips, transitions from stick-slip motion to steady sliding.Keywords
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- Version 1, 2001-01-12, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review B, 65 (12), 125402.
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