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Absoulute specific-heat measurements are presented for the solid phase and upper limit of 0.2kB per particle is established for the change in entropy on melting. The results support the dislocation-pair--unbinding model of Kosterlitz and Thouless.
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Glattli et al. (1988) studied this question.
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