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 (Contributor), Gangloff, Dorian (Contributor), Vuletic, Vladan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015-06-09T14:49:01Z.
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