Dynamics and Melting of Stripes, Crystals, and Bubbles with Quenched Disorder
Abstract
Two-dimensional systems in which there is a competition between long-range repulsion and short range attraction exhibit a remarkable variety of patterns such as stripes, bubbles, and labyrinths. Such systems include magnetic films, Langmuir monolayers, polymers, gels, water-oil mixtures, and two-dimensional electron systems. In many of these systems quenched disorder from the underlying substrate may be present. We examine the dynamics and stripe formation in the presence of both an applied dc drive and quenched disorder. When the disorder strength exceeds a critical value, an applied dc drive can induce a dynamical stripe ordering transition to a state that is more ordered than the originating undriven, unpinned pattern.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301236,
title = {Dynamics and Melting of Stripes, Crystals, and Bubbles with Quenched Disorder},
author = {C. J. Olson Reichhardt and C. Reichhardt and I. Martin and A. R. Bishop},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301236},
year = {2009}
}
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6 pages, 7 postscript figures; Proceedings of International Workshop on Anomalous Distributions, Nonlinear Dynamics and Nonextensivity, Santa Fe, 2002