Charge density wave surface phase slips and non-contact nanofriction

DOI10.1007/978-88-7642-536-3_8MaRDI QIDQ2962384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Franco Pellegrini, Giuseppe E. Santoro, E. Tosatti

Publication date 16 February 2017

Published in No-nonsense Physicist (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5267

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

Abstract: Bulk electrical dissipation caused by charge-density-wave (CDW) depinning and sliding is a classic subject. We present a novel local, nanoscale mechanism describing the occurrence of mechanical dissipation peaks in the dynamics of an atomic force microscope tip oscillating above the surface of a CDW material. Local surface 2$pi$ slips of the CDW phase are predicted to take place giving rise to mechanical hysteresis and large dissipation at discrete tip surface distances. The results of our static and dynamic numerical simulations are believed to be relevant to recent experiments on NbSe${}_2$; other candidate systems in which similar effects should be observable are also discussed.

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