Ginzburg criterion and critical behaviour at the incommensurate-commensurate transition

The influence of fluctuations on the incommensurate-commensurate (IC) transition in a d=2+ epsilon dimensional system exhibiting a one-dimensionally modulated structure is considered. For finite temperatures there is always a non-classical critical region where the domain wall density becomes proportional to (T-TIC)12/.

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