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The possible existence of a Kosterlitz-Thouless vortex-antivortex dissociation transition in thin superconducting films is discussed. It is found that in practice the situation should be closely analogous to that predicted for superfluid-helium films. A simple relationship is found between the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature and the sheet resistance. This relationship is compared with the observed broadening of the resistive transition of superconducting films with high sheet resistance.
Beasley et al. (Mon,) studied this question.