Fibrillar templates and soft phases in systems with short-range dipolar and long-range interactions

Abstract

We analyze the thermal fluctuations of particles that have a short-range dipolar attraction and a long-range repulsion. In an inhomogeneous particle density region, or "soft phase," filamentary patterns appear which are destroyed only at very high temperatures. The filaments act as a fluctuating template for correlated percolation in which low-energy excitations can move through the stable pattern by local rearrangements. At intermediate temperatures, dynamically averaged checkerboard states appear. We discuss possible implications for cuprate superconducting and related materials.

arXiv comment4 pages, 4 postscript figures. Discussion of implications for experiment and theory has been expanded

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