title: Confined molecules under shear: from a microscopic description to phenomenology.
abstract: A coarse grained two-state model is derived starting from a molecular dynamics description of a molecular system under shear. This model captures the main features of the response of a confined system under shear, and generalizes the phenomenological Tomlinson model for the response of a driven system. The derivation is based on the solution of coupled microscopic equations using a mean field approximation. The two-state model agrees well with the direct numerical solution and offers a practical approach to investigate the response of sheared systems under a broad range of parameters.
authors.affiliation: Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering of NASU, 83144, Donetsk, Ukraine.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Filippov
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klafter
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Urbakh