Nonuniform glassy electronic phases from competing local orders

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Abstract

We study nonuniform 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. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

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