%0 Journal Article
%T Defect-Unbinding Transition in Layered Superconductors
%A Matthew J. W. Dodgson
%A Vadim B. Geshkenbein
%A Gianni Blatter
%J Physics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5358
%X We establish a new interstitial-vacancy unbinding transition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type, transforming the three dimensional pancake vortex lattice of a decoupled layered superconductor into a defected solid. This transition is the natural finite-field extension of the vortex-anti-vortex unbinding transition establishing the zero-field superfluid stiffness. At finite Josephson coupling, the defect unbinding transition turns into a topological decoupling transition.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9902244v1