Atomic Scale Friction: What can be Deduced from the Response to a Harmonic Drive?
Atomic Scale Friction: What can be Deduced from the Response to a Harmonic Drive?
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原子级摩擦:从谐波驱动的响应中可以推断出什么?
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.81.1227
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
J. Klafter
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文献类型:
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作者:
V. Zaloj;M. Urbakh;J. Klafter
There has been a growing number of attempts to understand the relationship between frictional forces and the microscopic properties of nanosystems. Recent studies on friction [1‐ 9] have exposed a broad range of phenomena and new behaviors which help shed light on some “old” concepts which are already considered textbook material. These include the static and kinetic friction forces, transition to sliding, and thinning, which have been widely discussed but whose microscopic meaning is still lacking. There have been, generally, two approaches used to investigate shear forces of confined liquids: rheological (oscillatory external drive) and tribological (constant driving velocity). In the bulk the two approaches lead to similar results, but less is known about the relationship between rheology and tribology in nanoscale confined systems. Establishing a relationship between these approaches is essential for creating a unifying description of the response to shear and for further progress of related fields. In this Letter we concentrate on the rheological side of the problem and its relationship to tribology. Our proposed predictions can be tested experimentally by simultaneously analyzing the time series of the spring forces and the shear moduli. We suggest an interpretation to the observed dramatic enhancement in the effective viscosity [3,6] and to the effect of shear thinning in thin confined systems [3,10‐ 12]. In order to mimic the commonly used experimental configuration [13] we introduce a model of a chain embedded between two plates, one of which is externally driven, as depicted in Fig. 1a. The top plate of mass M is connected to a spring, of spring constant K1, which is harmonically driven, and to a spring K2, which is a response spring. The chain consists of N identical particles each of mass m0, which interact harmonically. The dynamical behavior of the system (chain 1 plates) follows the equations of motion: