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Towards a Microscopic Description of Friction

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We investigate the response of an embedded system subject to an external drive using a microscopic model. The shear is shown to excite “shearons”, which are collective modes of the embedded system with well defined spatial and temporal patterns that dominate the frictional properties of the driven system. We demonstrate that the slip relaxation in stick-slip motion and memory effects are well described in terms of the creation and/or annihilation of shearons.

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187, Dresden, Germany

    Markus Porto & Veaceslav Zaloj

  2. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, 4130 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853-4130, USA

    Michael Urbakh

  3. School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Joseph Klafter

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Porto, M., Zaloj, V., Urbakh, M. et al. Towards a Microscopic Description of Friction. MRS Online Proceedings Library 651, 431 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-651-T4.3.1

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