Tuning friction atom-by-atom in an ion-crystal simulator

Friction between ordered, atomically smooth surfaces at the nanoscale (nanofriction) is often governed by stick-slip processes. To test long-standing atomistic models of such processes, we implemented a synthetic nanofriction interface between a laser-cooled Coulomb crystal of individually addressab...

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Main Authors: Bylinskii, Alexei, Gangloff, Dorian, Vuletic, Vladan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97237
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8276-8256
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7100-0847