Evidence for the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Thin Superconducting Aluminum Films
- 28 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (4), 291-294
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.291
Abstract
The complex impedance of an aluminum film with normal-state sheet resistance of 4130 Ω/sq has been measured as a function of temperature and frequency. The experiment provides convincing evidence that there is a vortex-antivortex dissociation transition of the type predicted by the theory of Kosterlitz and Thouless for topological long-range order in two dimensions.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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