Fibrillar templates and soft phases in systems with short-range dipolar and long-range interactions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-10 v2 Soft Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
Abstract
We analyze the thermal fluctuations of particles that have a short-range dipolar attraction and a long-range repulsion. In an inhomogeneous particle density region, or "soft phase," filamentary patterns appear which are destroyed only at very high temperatures. The filaments act as a fluctuating template for correlated percolation in which low-energy excitations can move through the stable pattern by local rearrangements. At intermediate temperatures, dynamically averaged checkerboard states appear. We discuss possible implications for cuprate superconducting and related materials.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307479,
title = {Fibrillar templates and soft phases in systems with short-range dipolar and long-range interactions},
author = {C. J. Olson Reichhardt and C. Reichhardt and A. R. Bishop},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307479},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 postscript figures. Discussion of implications for experiment and theory has been expanded