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We present a study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in mildly disordered NbN nanoporous (NP) films. The measured superfluid stiffness, Js, is found to be much lower than that predicted by considering the reduction in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-31 A. Verma , R. Vedin , J. Jesudasan , J. Lidmar , I. Maccari , S. Bose

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

The $q-$state clock model, sometimes called the discrete $XY$ model, is known to show a second-order (symmetry breaking) phase transition in two-dimension (2D) for $q\le 4$ ($q=2$ corresponds to the Ising model). On the other hand, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-25 Arpita Goswami , Ravi Kumar , Monikana Gope , Shaon Sahoo

This study investigates the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition in superfluid $^4$He confined within uniform nanochannels. While the universal jump in superfluid density is a well-established phenomenon, predicting the absolute transition…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-04 Filip Novotný , Marek Talíř , Balázs Szalai , Emil Varga

We investigate the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in a semiconductor-superconductor two-dimensional Josephson junction array. Tuned by an electrostatic top gate, the system exhibits separate superconducting (S), anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 C. G. L. Bøttcher , F. Nichele , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus

We study the superfluid properties of two-dimensional spin-population-imbalanced Fermi gases to explore the interplay between the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition and the possible instability towards the Fulde-Ferrell…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-01-14 Shaoyu Yin , J. -P. Martikainen , P. Törmä

We study the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of two-dimensional Bose gases in a synthetic magnetic field using the standard Metropolis Monte Carlo method. The system is described by the frustrated XY model and the critical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-30 Junjun Xu , Qiang Gu

Motivated by recent progress on synthesizing two-dimensional magnetic van der Waals systems, we propose a setup for detecting the topological Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition in spin-transport experiments on such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Roberto E. Troncoso , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

We investigate the possibility that Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), loaded on a 2D optical lattice, undergo - at finite temperature - a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. We show that - in an experimentally attainable range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Trombettoni , A. Smerzi , P. Sodano

We study the phase diagram and critical behavior of a two-dimensional lattice SO($N_c$) gauge theory ($N_c \ge 3$) with two scalar flavors, obtained by partially gauging a maximally O($2N_c$) symmetric scalar model. The model is invariant…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-01-20 Claudio Bonati , Alessio Franchi , Andrea Pelissetto , Ettore Vicari

In the presence of the phase fluctuations in superconducting nanowires array, the electrical resistance of the superconducting nanowires is always non-zero unless the system undergoes Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition where…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-27 C. H. Wong , Raymond P. H. Wu , X. Lei , A. F. Zatsepin

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, the topological phase transition to a quasi-long range order in a two-dimensional (2D) system, is a hallmark of low-dimensional topological physics. The recent emergence of non-Hermitian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-23 Yun-Mei Li , Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

The nature of energy dissipation in 2D superconductors under perpendicular magnetic field at small current excitations has been extensively studied over the past two decades. However, dissipation mechanisms at high current drives remain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-07 Shashank Kumar Ojha , Prithwijit Mandal , Siddharth Kumar , Jyotirmay Maity , Srimanta Middey

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

Assuming that two-component Fermi gases with opposite artificial magnetic fields on a square optical lattice are well-described by the so-called time-reversal-symmetric Hofstadter-Hubbard model, we explore the thermal superfluid properties…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-17 M. Iskin

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

We study finite-temperature properties of a two-dimensional superfluid made of ultracold alkali-metal atoms in the BCS-BEC crossover. We investigate the region below the critical temperature $T_{BKT}$ of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-20 L. Salasnich , P. A. Marchetti , F. Toigo

We discuss the crucial role played by finite-size effects and inhomogeneity on the Beresinkii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in two-dimensional superconductors. In particular, we focus on the temperature dependence of the resistivity,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-11 L. Benfatto , C. Castellani , T. Giamarchi

We extend the newly proposed probability-changing cluster (PCC) Monte Carlo algorithm to the study of systems with the vector order parameter. Wolff's idea of the embedded cluster formalism is used for assigning clusters. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yusuke Tomita , Yutaka Okabe

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