Glassy behavior of two-dimensional stripe-forming systems
arXiv:1306.0021 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.062121
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.
6 pages, 2 figures + 2 pages of sup. mat. Version accepted for publication in PRE
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