Stick-slip motion and onset of sliding for five-layer soft lubricant  (N_l=5)

Stick-slip motion. Left panel: starting from an annealed configuration (pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV) for v_drive= 0.03 (run "t02");  Right panel: after a set of runs with  v_drive= 0.1, 0.3, 1, 0.3, 0.1, 0.03, and finally 0.01 (run "t09").

Movies for atomic motion (left: "t02" mov 24.9 Mb, avi, gif;  right: "t09" mov 26.6 Mb, avi, gif)

Structure factor for the run "t02" (LS (α_1-:-2), starting from the annealed configuration; uses sf-t02.mov 4.0 Mb, or see sf-t02.avi or sf-t02.gif)

Structure factor for the run "t09" (LoLS (β_1-:-4); uses sf-t09.mov 3.6 Mb, or also see sf-t09.avi or sf-t09.gif)

Onset of sliding starting from the annealed (α₁) and stick (α₂) configurations during stick-slip motion for v_drive= 0.03, when slips correspond to the LS regime, and from stick configurations (β₁,β₂,β₃,β₄) during stick-slip motion for v_drive= 0.01, when slips correspond to the LoLS motion

Movies for atomic motion. Left panel shows a side view, middle panel shows evolution of (averaged) local potential energy (in green), right panel shows velocities (in red) in the lubricant layer.

(α₁) Starting from an annealed configuration ("x01" pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV; movies: mov 1.35 Mb, avi, gif; layer by layer)

(α₂) Starting from the stick configuration ("x02" pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV; movies: mov 1.19 Mb, avi, gif; layer by layer)

(β₁) Starting from a stick configuration ("y01" pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV; movies: mov 0.99 Mb, avi, gif; layer by layer)

(β₂) Starting from a stick configuration ("y02" pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV; movies: mov 4.16 Mb, avi, gif; layer by layer)

(β₃) Starting from a stick configuration ("y03" pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV; movies: mov 1.2 Mb, avi, gif; layer by layer)

(β₄) Starting from a stick configuration ("y04" pdb, rsm, xyz, Java MV; movies: mov 2.56 Mb, avi, gif; layer by layer)

Last updated on May 10, 2006 by O.Braun.  Copyright © by O.Braun.