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 commensurate with the pinning center array.
The smectic phase can be turned on and off with external parameters.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure