Glassy behavior of two-dimensional stripe-forming systems
Statistical Mechanics
2013-06-18 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We study two dimensional frustrated but non-disordered systems applying a replica approach to a stripe forming model with competing interactions. The phenomenology of the model is representative of several well known systems, like high-Tc superconductors and ultrathin ferromagnetic films, which have been the subject of intense research. We establish the existence of a glass transition to a non-ergodic regime accompanied by an exponential number of long lived metastable states, responsible for slow dynamics and non-equilibrium effects.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.0021,
title = {Glassy behavior of two-dimensional stripe-forming systems},
author = {Ana C. Ribeiro Teixeira and Daniel A. Stariolo and Daniel G. Barci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0021},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures + 2 pages of sup. mat. Version accepted for publication in PRE