title: Dynamic phases in the two-dimensional underdamped driven Frenkel-Kontorova model.
abstract: We study the nonlinear dc response of a two-dimensional underdamped system of interacting atoms subject to an isotropic periodic external potential with triangular symmetry. When driving force increases, the system transfers from a disorder locked state to an ordered sliding state corresponding to a moving crystal. By varying the values of the effective elastic constant, damping, and temperature, we found different scenarios and intermediate phases during the ordering transition. For a soft atomic layer, the system passes through a plastic-channel regime that appears as a steady-state regime at higher values of the damping coefficient. For high values of the effective elastic constant, when the atomic layer is stiff, the intermediate plastic phase corresponds to a traffic-jam regime with immobile islands in the sea of running atoms. At a high driving of the stiff layer, a solitonlike elastic flow of atoms has been observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, The Beijing-Hong Kong-Singapore Joint Centre for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Jasmina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tekić
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.forename: Bambi
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D003102:Colloids / Q000737:chemistry*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D044367:Phase Transition
chemical_list: D003102:Colloids