{"paper":{"title":"Avoided criticality and slow relaxation in frustrated two dimensional models","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.soft"],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.stat-mech","authors_text":"Gilles Tarjus, Ilya Esterlis, Steve A. Kivelson","submitted_at":"2017-05-10T23:08:14Z","abstract_excerpt":"Frustration and the associated phenomenon of \"avoided criticality\" have been proposed as an explanation for the dramatic relaxation slowdown in glass-forming liquids. To test this, we have undertaken a Monte-Carlo study of possibly the simplest such problem, the 2-dimensional XY model with frustration corresponding to a small flux, $f$, per plaquette. At $f=0$, there is a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at $T^*$, but at any small but non-zero $f$, this transition is avoided, and replaced (presumably) by a vortex-ordering transition at much lower temperatures. We thus have studied th"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1705.03971","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}