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We study the phase transition of thin films in the three-dimensional XY universality class. To this end, we perform a Monte Carlo study of the improved two-component \phi^4 model, the improved dynamically diluted XY model and the standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Hasenbusch

The spin structure of an axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising (ANNNI) model in two dimensions (2D) is a renewed problem because different Monte Carlo (MC) simulation methods predicted different spin orderings. The usual equilibrium simulation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 T. Shirakura , F. Matsubara , N. Suzuki

We study the nearest-neighbor spin-ice model subjected to a magnetic field applied along the global [111] and [110] directions, focusing on the role of sample geometry in stabilizing topological phase transitions. While no Kasteleyn…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 R. A. Borzi , E. S. Loscar , S. A. Grigera

We present a theoretical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of a two-dimensional superfluid in the presence of an externally imposed density modulation along a single axis. The subject is investigated in the context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-01 Domenico Giuliano , Phong H. Nguyen , Andrea Nava , Massimo Boninsegni

It is well known that the 2D XY model exhibits an unusual infinite order phase transition belonging to the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) universality class. Introduction of a nematic coupling into the XY Hamiltonian leads to an additional phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Fabio Poderoso , Jeferson J. Arenzon , Yan Levin

We consider quenches in non-conserved two-dimensional XY systems between any two temperatures below the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. The evolving systems are defect free at coarse-grained scales, and can be exactly treated. Correlations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. D. Rutenberg , A. J. Bray

We apply a recently developed theory for metastability in open quantum systems to a one-dimensional dissipative quantum Ising model. Earlier results suggest this model features either a non-equilibrium phase transition or a smooth but sharp…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-22 Dominic C. Rose , Katarzyna Macieszczak , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

Tipping elements in the Earth System receive increased scientific attention over the recent years due to their nonlinear behavior and the risks of abrupt state changes. While being stable over a large range of parameters, a tipping element…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Jan Kohler , Nico Wunderling , Jonathan F. Donges , Jürgen Vollmer

We propose a realistic experiment to demonstrate a dynamic Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in ultra-cold atomic gases in two dimensions. With a numerical implementation of the Truncated Wigner Approximation we simulate the time evolution of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-25 L. Mathey , Kenneth J. Günter , Jean Dalibard , A. Polkovnikov

We study numerically the evolution of energy-level statistics as an integrability-breaking term is added to the XXZ Hamiltonian. For finite-length chains, physical properties exhibit a cross-over from behavior resulting from the Poisson…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Rabson , B. N. Narozhny , A. J. Millis

Using the tensor network approach, we investigate the monomer-dimer models on a checkerboard lattice, in which there are interactions (with strength $\nu$) between the parallel dimers on half of the plaquettes. For the fully packed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-08 Sazi Li , Wei Li , Ziyu Chen

We investigate the nature of the phase transition occurring in a planar XY-model spin system with dipole-dipole interactions. It is demonstrated that a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type of phase transition always takes place at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-09 A. Yu. Vasiliev , A. E. Tarkhov , L. I. Menshikov , P. O. Fedichev , Uwe R. Fischer

We study a one-dimensional interacting topological model by means of exact diagonalization method. The topological properties are firstly examined with the existence of the edge states at half-filling. We find that the topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huaiming Guo , Shun-Qing Shen

Some important rigorous results on phase transitions accompanied by the spontaneous breaking of symmetries in statistical mechanics and relativistic quantum field theory are reviewed. Basic ideas, mainly inspired by quantum field theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-04 Jürg Fröhlich

The majority of analysis of interacting systems is done for weak and well-balanced interactions, when in fact topology and rare event factors often result in strong and sign-biased interactions when considering real systems. We analyse the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-30 Tommaso Jack Leonardi , Amos Maritan , Sandro Azaele

Phase transitions give crucial insight into many-body systems, as crossovers between different regimes of order are determined by the underlying dynamics. These dynamics, in turn, are often constrained by dimensionality and geometry. For…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-26 Guohai Situ , Stefan Muenzel , Jason W. Fleischer

We investigate the recently proposed dimensional reduction conjecture in driven disordered systems using a machine learning technique. The conjecture states that a static snapshot of a disordered system driven at a constant velocity is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-29 Taiki Haga

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

We study the classical two-dimensional Coulomb gas model for thermal vortex fluctuations in thin superconducting/superfluid films by Monte Carlo simulation of a grand canonical vortex ensemble defined on a continuum. The Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jack Lidmar , Mats Wallin

The presence of stable topological defects in a two-dimensional (\textit{d} = 2) liquid crystal model allowing molecular reorientations in three dimensions (\textit{n} = 3) was largely believed to induce defect-mediated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-28 B. Kamala Latha , V. S. S. Sastry