Defect-mediated melting

The KTHNY theory is a specific example of a defect-mediated melting theory, of which there are numerous other examples. In Section II.E we discuss some of the other 2D defect-mediated melting theories, including computer simulations of systems of interacting defects. 

The various defect-mediated melting theories that have been proposed differ primarily in the type of defects that are assumed to be important in... 

A. Armstrong, Defect Mediated Melting in Colloidal Monolayers, Ph.D. thesis. University of Colorado. Boulder, 1988. 

Dislocation-mediated melting theories are by far the most popular of the defect-based melting theories, with a correspondingly large literature. The literature on dislocation-mediated melting in 3D up to about 1980 has been reviewed by Cotterill [9,10]. More recently, Edwards and Warner [100] used techniques from polymer physics to treat the statistics of an ensemble of dislocation loops, and found that the interactions between dislocations are screened by a finite density of dislocations,... 

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