Gauge Theories with a Layered Phase
  We study abelian gauge theories with anisotropic couplings in $4+D$ dimensions. A layered phase is present, in the absence as well as in the presence of fermions. A line of second order transitions separates the layered from the Coulomb phase, if $D\leq 3$. 
A. Hulsebos, C. P. Korthals-Altes and S. Nicolis