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Alessandro Principi1, Mikhail I Katsnelson1
1Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heijndaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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We study the glass formation in two- and three-dimensional Ising and Heisenberg spin systems subject to competing interactions and uniaxial anisotropy with a mean-field approach. In three dimensions, for sufficiently strong anisotropy the systems always modulate in a striped phase. Below a critical strength of the anisotropy, a glassy phase exists in a finite range of temperature, and it becomes more stable as the system becomes more isotropic. In two dimensions the criticality is always avoided and the glassy phase always exists.
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