Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-08-15
PNAS 108, 11804 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Accepted to PNAS
Scientific paper
10.1073/pnas.1014915108
Geometrically frustrated materials have a ground-state degeneracy that may be lifted by subtle effects, such as higher order interactions causing small energetic preferences for ordered structures. Alternatively, ordering may result from entropic differences between configurations in an effect termed order-by-disorder. Motivated by recent experiments in a frustrated colloidal system in which ordering is suspected to result from entropy, we consider in this paper, the antiferromagnetic Ising model on a deformable triangular lattice. We calculate the displacements exactly at the microscopic level, and contrary to previous studies, find a partially disordered ground state of randomly zigzagging stripes. Each such configuration is deformed differently and thus has a unique phonon spectrum with distinct entropy, thus lifting the degeneracy at finite temperature. Nonetheless, due to the free-energy barriers between the ground-state configurations, the system falls into a disordered glassy state.
Lubensky Tom. C.
Shokef Yair
Souslov Anton
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