Dislocations and Bragg glasses in two dimensions

Details Dislocations and Bragg glasses in two dimensions Dislocations and Bragg glasses in two dimensions

1998-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9810218v1

Physica C 331, 233 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

6 pages, 4 figures, RevTex

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0921-4534(00)00005-8

We discuss the question of the generation of topological defects (dislocations) by quenched disorder in two dimensional periodic systems. In a previous study [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 52} 1242 (1995)] we found that, contrarily to $d=3$, unpaired dislocations appear in $d=2$ above a length scale $\xi_D$, which we estimated. We extend this description to include effects of freezing and pinning of dislocations at low temperature. The resulting $\xi_D$ at low temperature is found to be {\it larger} than our previous estimate, which is recovered above a characteristic temperature. The dependence of $\xi_D$ in the bare core energy of dislocations is a stretched exponential. We stress that for all temperatures below melting $\xi_D$ becomes arbitrarily large at weak disorder compared to the translational order length $R_a \gg a$. Thus there is a wide region of length scales, temperature and disorder where Bragg glass like behavior should be observable.

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