Fradkin, Eduardo ; Hernandez, Oscar ; Huberman, B. A. ; Pandit, Rahul (1983) Periodic, incommensurate and chaotic states in a continuum Statistical Mechanics Model Nuclear Physics B, 215 (2). pp. 137-168. ISSN 0550-3213
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Abstract
We study the thermodynamic behavior of a continuum system with competing periodicities. We show that in addition to commensurate and incommensurate phases, there exist configurations which are chaotic in nature and exhibit no long-range order. These phases are metastable and characterized by an order parameter with a continuous spectrum. By transforming the problem of determining the ground states of the system into a classical mechanics problem, we construct a two-dimensional area-preserving map which can be used to study the qualitative nature of the orbits. Our results might be of relevance to adsorbed monolayers on periodic substrates.
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