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Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jul 28;97(4):045701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.045701. Epub 2006 Jul 24.

Quantum smectic as a dislocation Higgs phase.

Physical review letters

V Cvetkovic, J Zaanen

Affiliations

  1. Instituut Lorentz voor de theoretische natuurkunde, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. [email protected]

PMID: 16907592 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.045701

Abstract

The theory describing quantum smectics in 2+1 dimensions, based on topological quantum melting is presented. This is governed by a dislocation condensate characterized by an ordering of Burger's vector and this "dual shear superconductor" manifests itself in the form of a novel spectrum of phononlike modes.

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