Correlated versus Uncorrelated Stripe Pinning: the Roles of Nd and Zn   Co-Doping
  We investigate the stripe pinning produced by Nd and Zn co-dopants in cuprates via a renormalization group approach. The two dopants play fundamentally different roles in the pinning process. While Nd induces a correlated pinning potential that traps the stripes in a flat phase and suppresses fluctuations, Zn pins the stripes in a disordered manner and promotes line meandering. We obtain the zero temperature phase diagram and compare our results with neutron scattering data. A good agreement is found between theory and experiment. 
C. Morais Smith, N. Hasselmann and A. H. Castro Neto