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Proliferation of defects is a mechanism that allows for topological phase transitions. Such a phase transition is found in two dimensions for the XY-model, which lies in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) universality class. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-30 Kevin T. Grosvenor , Ruben Lier , Piotr Surówka

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the prototype of a phase transition driven by the formation and interaction of topological defects in two-dimensional (2D) systems. In typical models these are vortices: above a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-27 M. C. Diamantini , C. A. Trugenberger , V. M. Vinokur

The crossover between short-range and long-range (LR) universal behaviors remains a central theme in the physics of long-range interacting systems. The competition between LR coupling and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism makes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Tianning Xiao , Dingyun Yao , Chao Zhang , Zhijie Fan , Youjin Deng

We discuss how to locate critical points in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) universality class by means of gap-scaling analyses. While accurately determining such points using gap extrapolation procedures is usually challenging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-01 M. Dalmonte , J. Carrasquilla , L. Taddia , E. Ercolessi , M. Rigol

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 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

Any state of matter is classified according to its order, and the kind of order a physical system can posses is profoundly affected by its dimensionality. Conventional long-range order, like in a ferromagnet or a crystal, is common in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Zoran Hadzibabic , Peter Krüger , Marc Cheneau , Baptiste Battelier , Jean B. Dalibard

A general theory of the Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type phase transitions in low-dimensional systems is proposed. It is shown that in d-dimensional case the necessary conditions for it can take place are 1) conformal invariance of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Bulgadaev

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is a very specific phase transition where all thermodynamic quantities are smooth. Therefore, it is difficult to determine the critical temperature in a precise way. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-27 M. Richter-Laskowska , H. Khan , N. Trivedi , M. M. Maśka

Machine learning has become a useful tool for studying phase transitions in statistical systems.For the two-dimensional classical XY model, however, the topological character of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-02 Qingao Fan , Xu Li , Tingting Xue

It is argued that two-dimensional U(N) spin models for any N undergo a BKT-like phase transition, similarly to the famous XY model. This conclusion follows from the Berezinskii-like calculation of the two-point correlation function in U(N)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-07-13 Oleg Borisenko , Volodymyr Chelnokov , Francesca Cuteri , Alessandro Papa

Classical 2D clock model is known to have a critical phase with Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless(BKT) transitions. These transitions have logarithmic corrections which make numerical analysis difficult. In order to resolve this difficulty,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Haruhiko Matsuo , Kiyohide Nomura

A number of two-dimensional(2D) critical phenomena can be described in terms of the 2D sine-Gordon model. With the bosonization, several 1D quantum systems are also transformed to the same model. However, the transition of the 2D…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kiyohide Nomura

We demonstrate a three-dimensional Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition in the random field XY model driven out of thermal equilibrium. By employing the spin-wave approximation and functional renormalization group approach, in the weak…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Taiki Haga

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) essential phase transition in the 2d XY model is revisited. Its mechanism is usually described by the (un)binding of vortex--anti-vortex (V--AV) pairs, which does, however, not provide a clear-cut…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-02 Brandon Gómez Bravo , Bryan D. Juárez Hernández , Wolfgang Bietenholz

We discuss the d=2 quantum O(2)xO(2) nonlinear sigma model as a low-energy theory of phase reconstruction near a quantum critical point. We first examine the evolution of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition as the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-05 C. A. Hooley , S. T. Carr , J. M. Fellows , J. Schmalian

We study the statistical mechanics of two-dimensional "super-Coulombic" plasmas, namely, neutral plasmas with power-law interactions longer-ranged than Coulomb. To that end, we employ numerically exact large-scale Monte Carlo simulations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ayush De , Leo Radzihovsky , Snir Gazit

We study the universal critical behavior of two-dimensional (2D) lattice bosonic gases at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, which separates the low-temperature superfluid phase from the high-temperature normal phase. For…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-09 G. Ceccarelli , J. Nespolo , A. Pelissetto , E. Vicari

In tensor network representation, the partition function of a generalized two-dimensional XY spin model with topological integer and half-integer vortex excitations is mapped to a tensor product of one-dimensional quantum transfer operator,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Feng-Feng Song , Guang-Ming Zhang

The one-dimensional extended isotropic XY model (s=1/2) in a transverse field with uniform long-range interactions among the \textit{z} components of the spin is considered. The model is exactly solved by introducing the gaussian and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-11 F. G. Ribeiro , J. P. de Lima , L. L. Goncalves