Velocity-driven frictional sliding: Coarsening and steady-state pulse trains

Thibault Roch, Efim A. Brener, Jean-François Molinari1,∗ and Eran Bouchbinder4† Civil Engineering Institute, Materials Science and Engineering Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 18, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Peter Grünberg Institut, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany Chemical and Biological Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel