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Optimal Energy Dissipation in Sliding Friction Simulations
A. Benassi, A. Vanossi, G. E. Santoro +1
Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, of crucial importance in sliding friction, are hampered by arbitrariness and uncertainties in the removal of the frictionally genera…
Atomic spin sensitive dissipation on magnetic surfaces
Franco Pellegrini, Giuseppe E. Santoro, Erio Tosatti
We identify the mechanism of energy dissipation relevant to spin-sensitive nanomechanics including the recently introduced magnetic exchange force microscopy, where oscillating mag…
Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in sliding nanotubes
X. H. Zhang, G. E. Santoro, U. Tartaglino +1
We discovered in simulations of sliding coaxial nanotubes an unanticipated example of dynamical symmetry breaking taking place at the nanoscale. While both nanotubes are perfectly…
Nonlinear hysteretic behavior of a confined sliding layer
N. Manini, G. E. Santoro, E. Tosatti +1
A nonlinear model representing the tribological problem of a thin solid lubricant layer between two sliding periodic surfaces is used to analyze the phenomenon of hysteresis at pin…
Solitons and exact velocity quantization of incommensurate sliders
Nicola Manini, Marco Cesaratto, Giuseppe E. Santoro +2
We analyze in some detail the recently discovered velocity quantization phenomena in the classical motion of an idealized one-dimensional solid lubricant, consisting of a harmonic…
Asymmetric frictional sliding between incommensurate surfaces
Giuseppe E. Santoro, Andrea Vanossi, Nicola Manini +2
We study the frictional sliding of two ideally incommensurate surfaces with a third incommensurate sheet - a sort of extended lubricant - in between. When the mutual ratios of the…