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High Precision Verification of the Kosterlitz Thouless Scenario

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-22 v1 Condensed Matter

Abstract

We verify the Kosterlitz Thouless scenario for three different SOS (solid-on-solid) models, including the dual transforms of XY-models with Villain and with cosine action. The method is based on a matching of the renormalization group (RG) flow of the candidate models with the flow of a bona fide KT model, the exactly solvable BCSOS model. We obtain high precision estimates for the critical couplings and other non-universal quantities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9207019,
  title  = {High Precision Verification of the Kosterlitz Thouless Scenario},
  author = {M. Hasenbusch and M. Marcu and K. Pinn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9207019},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, DESY 92-010