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Accurately modeling friction in robotics remains a core challenge, as robotics simulators like MuJoCo and PyBullet use simplified friction models or heuristics to balance computational efficiency with accuracy, where these simplifications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Asutay Ozmen , João P. Hespanha , Katie Byl

Friction is ubiquitous in daily life, from nanoscale machines to large engineering components. By probing the intricate interplay between system parameters and frictional behavior, scientists seek to unveil the underlying mechanisms that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Yulong Li , Peter Gumbsch , Christian Greiner

Machine Learning (ML)-based force fields are attracting ever-increasing interest due to their capacity to span spatiotemporal scales of classical interatomic potentials at quantum-level accuracy. They can be trained based on high-fidelity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Sebastien Röcken , Julija Zavadlav

The frictional properties of individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are studied by sliding an atomic force microscopy tip across and along its principle axis. This direction-dependent frictional behavior is found to correlate strongly with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-20 Hsiang-Chih Chiu , Beate Ritz , Suenne Kim , Erio Tosatti , Christian Klinke , Elisa Riedo

We propose a general framework to extract microscopic interactions from raw configurations with deep neural networks. The approach replaces the modeling Hamiltonian by the neural networks, in which the interaction is encoded. It can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Lingxiao Wang , Yin Jiang , Kai Zhou

Machine-learned force fields have generated significant interest in recent years as a tool for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, with the aim of developing accurate and efficient models that can replace classical interatomic potentials.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shaswat Mohanty , Sanghyuk Yoo , Keonwook Kang , Wei Cai

We study in detail the recent suggestions by Tshiprut et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 016101 (2005)] to tune tribological properties at the nanoscale by subjecting a substrate to periodic mechanical oscillations. We show that both in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 Roberto Guerra , Andrea Vanossi , Michael Urbakh

This article is a continuation of our previous studies of the frictional anisotropy of metal nanoparticles on the surface of a graphene substrate for other temperature conditions. The friction force acting on palladium nanoparticles on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 A. V. Khomenko , M. V. Zakharov

Knitted sensors frequently suffer from inconsistencies due to innate effects such as offset, relaxation, and drift. These properties, in combination, make it challenging to reliably map from sensor data to physical actuation. In this paper,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Roland Aigner , Andreas Stöckl

Knotted molecules occur naturally and are designed by scientists to gain special biological and material properties. Understanding and utilizing knotting require efficient methods to recognize and generate knotted structures, which are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Zhiyu Zhang , Yongjian Zhu , Liang Dai

Friction in atomistic systems is usually described by the classical Prandtl-Tomlinson model suitable for capturing the dragging force of a nanoparticle in a periodic potential. Here we consider the quantum mechanical version of this model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Dai-Nam Le , Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Lilia M. Woods

Magnetic moments near zigzag edges in graphene allow complex nanostructures with customised spin properties to be realised. However, computational costs restrict theoretical investigations to small or perfectly periodic structures. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Meriç E. Kucukbas , Seán McCann , Stephen R. Power

As mechanical devices in the nano/micro length scale are increasingly employed, it is crucial to understand nanoscale friction and wear especially at technically relevant sliding velocities. Accordingly, a novel technique has been developed…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 James L. Bosse , Sungjun Lee , Bryan D. Huey , Andreas Sø Andersen , Duncan S. Sutherland

Friction is one of the fundamental issues in physics, mechanics and material science with lots of practical applications. However, the understanding of macroscopic friction phenomena from microscopic aspect is still on the way. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-29 J. Wang , G. F. Wang , W. K. Yuan

Carbon fiber and graphene-based nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and defective structures have extraordinary potential as strong and lightweight materials. A longstanding bottleneck has been lack of understanding and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-26 Qi Zhao , Jordan J. Winetrout , Yanxun Xu , Yusu Wang , Hendrik Heinz

We use machine learning (ML) to infer stress and plastic flow rules using data from repre- sentative polycrystalline simulations. In particular, we use so-called deep (multilayer) neural networks (NN) to represent the two response…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Reese E. Jones , Jeremy A. Templeton , Clay M. Sanders , Jakob T. Ostien

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer a powerful avenue for simulations beyond length and timescales of ab initio methods. Their development for investigation of mechanical properties and fracture, however, is far from…

As a bulk mechanical property, nanoscale hardness in polycrystalline metals is strongly dependent on microstructural features that are believed to be heavily influenced from complex features of polycrystallinity -- namely, individual grain…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are envisaged as ultra-thin solid lubricants for nano-mechanical systems. So far, their frictional properties at the nanoscale have been studied by standard friction force microscopy. However, lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Borislav Vasić , Igor Stanković , Aleksandar Matković , Markus Kratzer , Christian Ganser , Radoš Gajić , Christian Teichert

Among the biggest challenges we face in utilizing neural networks trained on waveform data (i.e., seismic, electromagnetic, or ultrasound) is its application to real data. The requirement for accurate labels forces us to develop solutions…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tariq Alkhalifah , Hanchen Wang , Oleg Ovcharenko