On the Number of Metastable States in a Stripe Glass

Abstract

We estimate the number of metastable states of a self generated stripe glass, relevant for the formation of glassy doped Mott insulators. Using replica bound states, we demonstrate that the configurational entropy is the difference between the entropy of the stripe liquid and of an amorphous stripe solid with phonon-type excitations. Using simple scaling laws we then determine the relationship between the modulation length and the configurational entropy.

4-pages, no figures, to appear in Intl. J. of Mod. Phys. B (Proceedings of the 48-th Midwestern Solid State Conference)

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