title: Glassy behavior of two-dimensional stripe-forming systems.
abstract: We study two-dimensional frustrated but nondisordered systems applying a replica approach to a stripe-forming model with competing interactions. The phenomenology of the model is representative of several well-known systems, like high-Tc superconductors and ultrathin ferromagnetic films, which have been the subject of intense research. We establish the existence of a glass transition to a nonergodic regime accompanied by an exponential number of long-lived metastable states, responsible for slow dynamics and nonequilibrium effects.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Ribeiro Teixeira
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Stariolo
authors.forename: Daniel G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Barci