Non-uniform glassy electronic phases from competing local orders
arXiv:cond-mat/0409474
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.
7 pages, 2 figures