Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 045701 (2006) [4 pages]Quantum Smectic as a Dislocation Higgs PhaseReceived 27 April 2006; published 24 July 2006 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. © 2006 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.045701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.045701
PACS:
64.60.−i, 71.10.Hf, 71.27.+a, 74.20.Mn
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