Stripe glasses: Self-generated randomness in a uniformly frustrated system

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作者
Schmalian, J [1 ]
Wolynes, PG
机构
[1] Iowa State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[2] Iowa State Univ, Ames Lab, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[3] Univ Illinois, Dept Chem, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.836
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We show that a system with competing interactions on different length scales, relevant to the formation of stripes in doped Mott insulators, undergoes a self-generated glass transition which is caused by the frustrated nature of the interactions and not related to the presence of quenched disorder. An exponentially large number of metastable configurations is found, leading to a slow, landscape dominated lung time relaxation and a breakup of the system into a disordered inhomogeneous state.
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页码:836 / 839
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