Reply to comment on ``Competing Interactions, the Renormalization Group and the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition''

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2007-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/0709.4419v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 228904 (2007).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

to appear in PRL

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The focus of our work is to identify conditions for the presence of an isotropic-nematic phase transition in the context of a generic system with isotropic competing interactions. The comment 0709.4205 criticizes our results by showing that the low temperature fluctuations of a stripe phase in 2d diverge linearly in the thermodynamic limit. The analysis is restricted to the stripe phase and does not apply to the central result of our letter. We show, contrary to what is suggested in the comment, that the model introduced by D. G. Barci and D. A. Stariolo in PRL98, 200604 (2007) undergoes an isotropic-nematic phase transition in the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.

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