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The Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless (BKT) transition of the two-dimensional $XY$ model on the honeycomb lattice is investigated using both the techniques of Neural Network (NN) and Monte Carlo simulations. It is demonstrated in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-06-24 Fu-Jiun Jiang

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

In this paper, we apply machine learning methods to study phase transitions in certain statistical mechanical models on the two dimensional lattices, whose transitions involve non-local or topological properties, including site and bond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-11 Wanzhou Zhang , Jiayu Liu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

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

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 explore possible synchronization in two-dimensional (2D) locally coupled discrete-state oscillators under thermal fluctuations, using the self-rotating $q$-state clock model as a prototype. Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations reveal that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-02 Xin Wu , Mingcheng Yang

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

Efficient and automated classification of phases from minimally processed data is one goal of machine learning in condensed matter and statistical physics. Supervised algorithms trained on raw samples of microstates can successfully detect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-31 Matthew J. S. Beach , Anna Golubeva , Roger G. Melko

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

We study $q$-state clock models of regular and Villain types with $q=5,6$ using cluster-spin updates and observed double transitions in each model. We calculate the correlation ratio and size-dependent correlation length as quantities for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-01 Tasrief Surungan , Shunsuke Masuda , Yukihiro Komura , Yutaka Okabe

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

It has been known that encoding Boltzmann weights of a classical spin model in amplitudes of a many-body wave function can provide quantum models whose phase structure is characterized by using classical phase transitions. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Mohammad Hossein Zarei

A universal supervised neural network (NN) relevant to compute the associated criticalities of real experiments studying phase transitions is constructed. The validity of the built NN is examined by applying it to calculate the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-22 D. -R. Tan , J. -H. Peng , Y. -H. Tseng , F. -J. Jiang

The two Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions of the two-dimensional 5-state clock model are studied on infinite strips using the DMRG algorithm. Because of the open boundary conditions, the helicity modulus $\Upsilon_2$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Christophe Chatelain

Occurrence of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is investigated by superfluid density measurements for two-dimensional (2D) disordered NbN films with disorder level very close to a superconductor-insulator transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-16 Jie Yong , T. Lemberger , L. Benfatto , K. Ilin , M. Siegel

The critical phenomena of two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on the square lattice with $q=2,3,4,5$ and 6 are investigated using the technique of supervised neural network (NN). Unlike the conventional NN…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-26 Shang-Wei Li , Kai-Wei Huang , Chien-Ting Chen , Fu-Jiun Jiang

We investigate the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions for the square-lattice six-state clock model with the corner-transfer matrix renormalization group (CTMRG). Scaling analyses for effective correlation length, magnetization, and…

A system of two dimensional photon gas has recently been realized experimentally. It is pointed out that this setup can be used to observe a universal breathing mode of photon gas. It is shown that a modification in the experimental setup…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-17 Vivek M. Vyas , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , J. Banerji

We find the first example of a quantum Berenzinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition in two spatial dimensions via holography. This transition occurs in the D3/D5 system at nonzero density and magnetic field. At any nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Kristan Jensen , Andreas Karch , Dam T. Son , Ethan G. Thompson

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism, in which a phase transition is mediated by the proliferation of topological defects, governs the critical behaviour of a wide range of equilibrium two-dimensional systems with a continuous…