Breakdown of a conservation law in incommensurate systems

Details Breakdown of a conservation law in incommensurate systems Breakdown of a conservation law in incommensurate systems

2001-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102146v2

Phys. Rev. E 64, 016601 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 6 figures, typed with RevTex, submitted to Phys. Rev. E Replaced 27-03-2001: changes to text, minor revision of figur

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.016601

We show that invariance properties of the Lagrangian of an incommensurate system, as described by the Frenkel Kontorova model, imply the existence of a generalized angular momentum which is an integral of motion if the system remains floating. The behavior of this quantity can therefore monitor the character of the system as floating (when it is conserved) or locked (when it is not). We find that, during the dynamics, the non-linear couplings of our model cause parametric phonon excitations which lead to the appearance of Umklapp terms and to a sudden deviation of the generalized momentum from a constant value, signalling a dynamical transition from a floating to a pinned state. We point out that this transition is related but does not coincide with the onset of sliding friction which can take place when the system is still floating.

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