Physics and Nanofriction of Alkali Halide Solid Surfaces at the Melting Point

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2006-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602074v2

Surf. Sci. 600, 4395 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

7 pages, 6 figure; minor typo corrections; to appear in: Surf. Sci

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.susc.2006.02.083

Alkali halide (100) surfaces are anomalously poorly wetted by their own melt at the triple point. We carried out simulations for NaCl(100) within a simple (BMHFT) model potential. Calculations of the solid-vapor, solid-liquid and liquid-vapor free energies showed that solid NaCl(100) is a nonmelting surface, and that the incomplete wetting can be traced to the conspiracy of three factors: surface anharmonicities stabilizing the solid surface; a large density jump causing bad liquid-solid adhesion; incipient NaCl molecular correlations destabilizing the liquid surface, reducing in particular its entropy much below that of solid NaCl(100). Presently, we are making use of the nonmelting properties of this surface to conduct case study simulations of hard tips sliding on a hot stable crystal surface. Preliminary results reveal novel phenomena whose applicability is likely of greater generality.

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