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Experimental realization of smectic phase in vortex matter induced by symmetric potentials arranged in two-fold symmetry arrays

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2015-09-14
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Smectic order has been generated in superconducting Nb films with two-fold symmetry arrays of symmetric pinning centers. Magnetic fields applied perpendicularly to the films develop a vortex matter smectic phase that is easily detected when the vortices are commensurate with the pinning center array. The smectic phase can be turned on and off with external parameters.
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©2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. We thank Spanish MINECO grant FIS2013-45469 and CM grant S2013/MIT-2850 and EU COST Action MP-1201. D.G. acknowledges RYC-2012-09864.
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