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Dirty, Skewed, and Backwards: The Smectic - Phase Transition in Aerogel
We study the smectic AC transition in anisotropic and uniaxial disordered
environments, e.g., aerogel with an external field. We find very strange
behavior of translational correlations: the low-temperature, lower-symmetry
Smectic C phase is itless translationally ordered than the it high-temperature,
higher-symmetry Smectic A phase, with short-ranged and algebraic translational
correlations, respectively. Specifically, the A and C phase belong to the
quasi-long-ranged translationally ordered " XY Bragg glass '' and short-ranged
translationally ordered " m=1 Bragg glass '' phase, respectively. The AC phase
transition itself belongs to a new universality class, whose fixed points and
exponents we find in a d=5-epsilon expansion
Electron and phonon correlations in systems of one-dimensional electrons coupled to phonons
Electron and phonon correlations in systems of one-dimensional electrons
coupled to phonons are studied at low temperatures by emphasizing on the effect
of electron-phonon backward scattering. It is found that the -wave
components of the electron density and phonon displacement field share the same
correlations. Both correlations are quasi-long-ranged for a single conducting
chain coupled to one-dimensional or three-dimensional phonons, and they are
long-ranged for repulsive electron-electron interactions for a
three-dimensional array of parallel one-dimensional conducting chains coupled
to three-dimensional phonons
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