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Quantum and classical ripples in graphene
Juraj Hasik, Erio Tosatti, Roman Martonak
Thermal ripples of graphene are well understood at room temperature, but their quantum counterparts at low temperatures are still in need of a realistic quantitative description. H…
Friction Anomalies at First-Order Transition Spinodals: 1T-TaS
Emanuele Panizon, Torben Marx, Dirk Dietzel +4
Revealing phase transitions of solids through mechanical anomalies in the friction of nanotips sliding on their surfaces is an unconventional and instructive tool for continuous tr…
Ballistic thermophoresis of adsorbates on free-standing graphene
Emanuele Panizon, Roberto Guerra, Erio Tosatti
The textbook thermophoretic force which acts on a body in a fluid is proportional to the local temperature gradient. The same is expected to hold for the macroscopic drift behavior…
Quantum Lubricity
Tommaso Zanca, Franco Pellegrini, Giuseppe E. Santoro +1
The quantum motion of nuclei, generally ignored in sliding friction, can become important for an atom, ion, or light molecule sliding in an optical lattice. The density-matrix-calc…
Graphene nanoribbons on gold: Understanding superlubricity and edge effects
Lorenzo Gigli, Nicola Manini, Andrea Benassi +3
We address the atomistic nature of the longitudinal static friction against sliding of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) deposited on gold, a system whose structural and mechanical prope…
Controlling the magnetism of oxygen surface vacancies in strontium titanate through charging
Oleg O. Brovko, Erio Tosatti
We discuss, based on first principles calculations, the possibility to tune the magnetism of oxygen vacancies at the (001) surface of strontium titanate . The…