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The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition drives the unbinding of topological defects in many two-dimensional systems. In the two-dimensional Coulomb gas, it corresponds to an insulator-conductor transition driven by charge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-31 Michael F. Faulkner , Steven T. Bramwell , Peter C. W. Holdsworth

We develop a gauge theory of the critical behavior of the topological excitations-driven Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition in the XY model with weak quenched disorder. We find that while in two-dimensions the liquid of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-11 M. G. Vasin , V. N. Ryzhov , V. M. Vinokur

XY models with continuous spin orientation play a pivotal role in understanding topological phase transitions and emergent frustration phenomena, such as superconducting and superfluid phase transitions. However, the complex energy…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-24 Yuxuan Sun , Weiru Fan , Xingqi Xu , Da-Wei Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

By using topological current theory we study the inner topological structure of vortices a two-dimensional (2D) XY model and find the topological current relating to the order parameter field. A scalar field, $\psi$, is introduced through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-03 Wei-Kai Qi , Yong Chen

The collective behavior of a many-body system near a continuous phase transition is insensitive to the details of its microscopic physics[1]. Characteristic features near the phase transition are that the thermodynamic observables follow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-11 Chen-Lung Hung , Xibo Zhang , Nathan Gemelke , Cheng Chin

We have considered two classical lattice-gas models, consisting of particles that carry multicomponent magnetic momenta, and associated with a two-dimensional square lattices; each site can host one particle at most, thus implicitly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H Chamati , S Romano

We determine the detailed thermodynamic behavior of vortices in the O(2) scalar model in 2D and of global monopoles in the O(3) model in 3D. We construct new numerical techniques, based on cluster decomposition algorithms, to analyze the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-15 Nuno D. Antunes , Luis M. Bettencourt , Martin Kunz

In this PhD thesis, we study topological defects in two-dimensional non-equilibrium systems, focusing on active extensions of the XY model, including activity, mobility and non-reciprocity. In a noisy Kuramoto lattice with short-range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ylann Rouzaire

The celebrated Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition refers to a topological transition characterized, e.g., by the dissociation of vortex-antivortex pairs in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Such unusual phase has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-02 Changsong Xu , Yousra Nahas , Sergei Prokhorenko , Hongjun Xiang , L. Bellaiche

We present a controlled numerical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling, providing evidence of the characteristic logarithmic finite-size scaling of the BKT…

The modified XY model is a variation of the XY model extended by a half periodic term, exhibiting a rich phase structure. As the Goldstone model, also known as the linear O(2) model, can be obtained as a continuum and regular model for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-11 Michikazu Kobayashi , Gergely Fejős , Chandrasekhar Chatterjee , Muneto Nitta

The classical XY model has been consistently studied since it was introduced more than six decades ago. Of particular interest has been the two-dimensional spin model's exhibition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Brandon Willnecker , Mervlyn Moodley

In this Letter we will show that, in the presence of a properly modulated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction, a $U(1)$ vortex-antivortex lattice appears at low temperatures for a wide range of the DM interaction. Even more, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-24 A. Costa , M. B. Sturla

In the past decades considerable efforts have been made in order to understand the critical features of both classical and quantum long-range interacting models. The case of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) universality class, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-17 Guido Giachetti , Andrea Trombettoni , Stefano Ruffo , Nicolò Defenu

Two dimensional systems with U(1) symmetry exhibit a peculiar phase, i.e., the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase. In particular situations, the BKT phase exists as an intermediate temperature phase. There have been scenarios for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Masamichi Nishino , Seiji Miyashita

The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type phase transitions in two-dimensional systems with internal abelian continuous symmetries are investigated. The necessary conditions for they can take place are: 1) conformal invariance of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. A. Bulgadaev

We consider the two-dimensional classical XY model on a square lattice in the thermodynamic limit using tensor renormalization group and precisely determine the critical temperature corresponding to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-08-07 Raghav G. Jha

The thermodynamics of the 2D XY model is formulated by a transfer matrix method and analyzed by a density matrix renormalization group. The finite-size scaling and the beta function of the model are studied by the Roomany-Wyld…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 S. G. Chung

We discuss the finite-temperature properties of Bose-Einstein condensates loaded on a 2D optical lattice. In an experimentally attainable range of parameters the system is described by the XY model, which undergoes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Trombettoni , A. Smerzi , P. Sodano

Evidence for a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the 2D step model is obtained from Monte Carlo determinations of the helicity modulus. It is argued that the free energy of a single vortex at the center of the system depends logarithmically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Olsson , Petter Holme