scholarly journals Charge-density-wave surface phase slips and noncontact nanofriction

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Pellegrini ◽  
Giuseppe E. Santoro ◽  
Erio Tosatti
2016 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Franco Pellegrini ◽  
Giuseppe E. Santoro ◽  
Erio Tosatti

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
S. N. Artemenko

Theoretical model of current conversion from normal to collective current in mesoscopic samples of CDW conductors is presented. The current conversion is described in terms of phase slips (PS) induced by strain of the CDW and stimulated by thermal fluctuations. Kernels of PS situated near contacts are surrounded by long-range perturbations of the CDW phase. If spacing between contacts is shorter than decaying length of these perturbations then temporal evolution of PS at different contacts becomes correlated, and PS voltage decreases with spacing between the contacts decreasing. The results are in qualitative agreement with experimental study of current conversion in submicron NbSe3 wires.


1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. R2003-R2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriyuki Hatakenaka ◽  
Masato Shiobara ◽  
Ken-ichi Matsuda ◽  
Satoshi Tanda

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 5707-5716 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Brusdeylins ◽  
C. Heimlich ◽  
J. G. Skofronick ◽  
J. P. Toennies ◽  
R. Vollmer ◽  
...  

1988 ◽  
Vol 38 (18) ◽  
pp. 13047-13060 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Inui ◽  
R. P. Hall ◽  
S. Doniach ◽  
A. Zettl

2019 ◽  
Vol 479 ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel G. Trabada ◽  
Jesús I. Mendieta-Moreno ◽  
Diego Soler-Polo ◽  
Fernando Flores ◽  
José Ortega

Author(s):  
S. Ritchie ◽  
J. C. Bennett ◽  
A. Prodan ◽  
F.W. Boswell ◽  
J.M. Corbett

A continuous sequence of compounds having composition NbxTa1-xTe4; 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 have been studied by electron diffraction and microscopy. Previous studies have shown that the end members of the series, TaTε4 and NbTε4 possess a quasi-one-dimensional character and exhibit charge density wave (CDW) distortions. In these compounds, the subcell structure is tetragonal with axes (a × a × c) and consists of the metal atoms (Nb or Ta) centered within an extended antiprismatic cage of Te atoms. At room temperature, TaTε4 has a commensurate modulation structure with a 2a × 2a × 3c unit cell. In NbTε4, an incommensurate modulation with × ∼ 16c axes is observed. Preliminary studies of the mixed compounds NbxTα1-xTε4 showed a discontinuous jump of the modulation wave vector commensurate to incommensurate when the Nb dopant concentration x, exceeded x ≃ 0.3, In this paper, the nature of the compositional dependence of is studied in greater detail and evidence is presented for a stepwise variation of . This constitutes the first direct evidence for a Devil's staircase in CDW materials.


1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 539-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dumas ◽  
N. Thirion ◽  
M. Almeida ◽  
E. B. Lopes ◽  
M. J. Matos ◽  
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