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We present a theoretical study of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless like phase transition in lattices of nonequilibrium photon condensates. Starting from linearized fluctuation theory and the properties of vortices, we propose an analytical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-27 Vladimir N. Gladilin , Michiel Wouters

The celebrated work of Berezinskii, Kosterlitz and Thouless in the 1970s revealed exotic phases of matter governed by topological properties of low-dimensional materials such as thin films of superfluids and superconductors. Key to this…

In the two-dimensional superfluidity, the proliferation of the vortices and the anti-vortices results in a new class of phase transition, Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. This class of the phase transitions is also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chyh-Hong Chern

Two-dimensional superconductors undergo a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition driven by vortex-antivortex unbinding, yet experimental signatures beyond transport remain limited. Here, we show that the spin-lattice relaxation rate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-06 Wei-Wei Yang , Shao-Hang Shi , Zongsheng Zhou , Zi-Xiang Li , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is a typical topological phase transition defined between binding and unbinding states of vortices and antivortices, which is not accompanied by spontaneous symmetry breaking. It is known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-14 Masahito Mochizuki , Yusuke Miyajima

The Berezinskii-Kostelitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry-breaking, where a quasi-ordered phase, characterized by a power law scaling of the correlation functions at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 Guido Giachetti , Nicolo Defenu , Stefano Ruffo , Andrea Trombettoni

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

One of the most relevant manifestations of the Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition occurs in quasi-two-dimensional superconducting systems. The experimental advances made in the last decade in the investigation of superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 L. Benfatto , C. Castellani , T. Giamarchi

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

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, the transition of the 2D sine-Gordon model, plays an important role in the low dimensional physics. We relate the operator content of the BKT transition to that of the SU(2)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kiyohide Nomura , Atsuhiro Kitazawa

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

A two-dimensional (2D) spin-1 Bose gas exhibits two Berezenskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transitions in the easy-plane ferromagnetic phase. The higher temperature transition is associated with superfluidity of the mass current determined…

We perform large-scale, numerically exact calculations on the two-dimensional interacting Fermi gas with a contact attraction. Reaching much larger lattice sizes and lower temperatures than previously possible, we determine systematically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-15 Yuan-Yao He , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We study the emergence of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phases in (PbTiO$_3$)$_3$/(SrTiO$_3$)$_3$ superlattices by means of second-principles simulations. Beyond a threshold tensile epitaxial strain of $\epsilon = 0.25 \%$ the local…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-21 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Pablo García-Fernández , Juan M. López , Javier Junquera

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…

We propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. (Nature Physics 7, 849 (2011)) in terms of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. We observe that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-20 Jian-Huang She , Alexander V. Balatsky

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition is considered in the condition of lowest temperatures, when thermal fluctuations give place to quantum ones. For this goal, the critical dynamic of the Sine-Gordon model near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-23 Mikhail Vasin

In a two-dimensional (2D) spin system, the XY model, characterized by planar rotational symmetry, exhibits a unique phenomenon known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. In contrast, the clock model, which introduces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-07 Yutaka Okabe , Hiromi Otsuka

The melting of quasi-long-range superconductivity in two spatial dimensions occurs through the proliferation and unbinding of vortex-antivortex pairs -- a phenomenon known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. Although…

We consider the classical XY model (or classical rotor model) on the two-dimensional square lattice graph as well as its dual model, which is a model of height functions. The XY model has a phase transition called the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Piet Lammers