Melting-freezing cycles in a relatively sheared pair of crystalline monolayers
arXiv:cond-mat/0205030 · doi:10.1209/epl/i2002-00265-7
Abstract
The nonequilibrium dynamical behaviour that arises when two ordered two-dimensional monolayers of particles are sheared over each other is studied in Brownian dynamics simulations. A curious sequence of nonequilibrium states is observed as the driving rate is increased, the most striking of which is a sliding state with irregular alternation between disordered and ordered states. We comment on possible mechanisms underlying these cycles, and experiments that could observe them.
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