Competing long-range/short-range interactions

Two-dimensional systems in which there is a competition between long-range repulsion and short range attraction exhibit a remarkable variety of patterns such as stripes, bubbles, and labyrinths. Such systems include magnetic films, Langmuir monolayers, polymers, gels, and water-oil mixtures. It has been proposed that similar competing interactions can arise in two-dimensional electron systems leading to stripes, clumps, and liquid crystalline electron states. Stripe and other charge-ordered phases in metal oxides are sometimes modeled as systems with competing long range repulsion and short range attraction. In many of these systems quenched disorder from the underlying substrate may be present; however, it is not known how this disorder would affect the structure and dynamics of these systems. Quenched disorder can strongly alter the transport properties, producing a pinning effect in which a finite driving force must be applied before net motion occurs.

Papers

1. "Anisotropic sliding dynamics, peak effect, and metastability in stripe systems"
   C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson Reichhardt and A.R.Bishop
   Phys. Rev. E 83 041501 (2011).
   arXiv:1011.1018

2. "Structural transitions, melting, and intermediate phases for stripe and clump forming systems"
   C.J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt and A.R.Bishop
   Phys. Rev. E 82 041502 (2010).
   arXiv:1005.0856

3. "Hysteresis and noise in stripe and clump forming systems"
   C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson Reichhardt and A.R.Bishop
   Europhys. Lett 72 444 (2005).
   cond-mat/0503261

4. "Dynamics and melting of stripes, crystals, and bubbles with quenched disorder"
   C.J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, I. Martin and A.R.Bishop
   Physica D 193 303 (2004).
   cond-mat/0301236

5. "Fibrillar templates and soft phases in systems with short-range dipolar and long-range interactions"
   C.J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, and A.R. Bishop
   Phys. Rev. Lett, 92 016801 (2004).
   cond-mat/0307479

6. "Effect of FET geometry on charge ordering of transition metal oxides"
   C.J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, D.L. Smith and A.R. Bishop
   Phys. Rev. B 68 033101 (2003).
   cond-mat/0211611

7. "Dynamical ordering of driven stripe phases in quenched disorder"
   C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson, I. Martin and A.R. Bishop
   Phys. Rev. Lett, 86 , 026401 (2003).
   Online version

8. "Depinning and dynamics of systems with competing interactions in quenched disorder"
   C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson, I. Martin, and A.R. Bishop
   Europhysics Letters, 61 221 (2003).
   Online version
   
   
9. "Moving Wigner glasses and smectics: Dynamics of disordered Wigner crystals"
   C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson, N. Gronbech-Jensen, and F. Nori
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4354 (2001).
   Online version

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Groups working on stripes and pattern forming systems

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