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Non-uniform glassy electronic phases from competing local orders

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-10-15 v4

Abstract

We study non-uniform states and possible glassiness triggered by a competition between distinct local orders in disorder free systems. Both in Ginzburg-Landau theories and in simple field theories, such inhomogeneous states arise from negative gradient terms between the competing order parameters. We discuss applications of these ideas to a variety of strongly correlated systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409474,
  title  = {Non-uniform glassy electronic phases from competing local orders},
  author = {Zohar Nussinov and Ilya Vekhter and Alexander V. Balatsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409474},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures

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