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Melting-freezing cycles in a relatively sheared pair of crystalline monolayers

Das, M and Ramaswamy, S and Ananthakrishna, G (2002) Melting-freezing cycles in a relatively sheared pair of crystalline monolayers. In: EPL: Europhysics Letters, 60 (4). pp. 636-642.

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Abstract

The nonequilibrium dynamical behaviour that arises when two ordered two-dimensional monolayers of particles are sheared over each other is studied in Brownian dynamics simulations. A curious sequence of nonequilibrium states is observed as the driving rate is increased, the most striking of which is a sliding state with irregular alternation between disordered and ordered states. We comment on possible mechanisms underlying these cycles, and experiments that could observe them.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: EPL: Europhysics Letters
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to EDP Sciences.
Department/Centre: Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 20 Jul 2011 06:27
Last Modified: 20 Jul 2011 06:27
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/39277

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