%0 Journal Article
%A Valle Granda, Javier del
%A Gómez, A.
%A González, E. M.
%A Osorio, M. R.
%A Gálvez Alonso, Fernando
%A Granados, D.
%A Vicent López, José Luis
%T Experimental realization of smectic phase in vortex matter induced by symmetric potentials arranged in two-fold symmetry arrays
%D 2015
%@ 1367-2630
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24333
%X 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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