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We discuss recent results on atomic friction at clean atomically flat surfaces obtained by atomic force microscopy in terms of a two-dimensional Tomlinson model. Instabilities of the tip position give rise to irreversible jumps which are responsible for the occurrence of friction. The model calculations are in good agreement with the experimental observations. We propose a method for the reconstruction of the lateral atomic force field from measured data.
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Gyalog, T., Thomas, H. (1996). Mechanism of Atomic Friction. In: Persson, B.N.J., Tosatti, E. (eds) Physics of Sliding Friction. NATO ASI Series, vol 311. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8705-1_24
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