Abstract
We examine the effect of stick-slip boundary conditions on the friction generated by a molecularly thin layer of a liquid lubricant separating two plates. For one-dimensional compressible flows, noise-induced coherent dissipative structures on a micron scale are generated due to cooperation between the external drive and the thermal noise. As a function of the thermal noise these structures show a peak in their amplitudes similar to stochastic resonance. At low velocities a reduction in friction with increasing thermal noise is observed.
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