Multistep locked-to-sliding transition in a thin lubricant film

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3097-3100

  Braun, O M ^a,b   Bishop, A R ^a   Roder J ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; FRICTION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHONONS; THIN FILMS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FRICTION COEFFICIENT; LANGEVIN EQUATIONS; LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL;

LUBRICANTS;

EID: 0032606440     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3097     Document Type: Article

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