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For the spin models with continuous symmetry on regular lattices and finite range of interactions the lower critical dimension is d=2. In two dimensions the classical XY-model displays Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition associated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-30 Michelle Przedborski , Bozidar Mitrovic

We show that quasi-one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate under suitable conditions can exhibit a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition. The role played by quantized vortices in two dimensional case, is played in this case by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-28 Vivek M. Vyas , Sandeep Gautam , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we determine the phase diagram of a diffusive two-temperature XY model. When the two temperatures are equal the system becomes the equilibrium XY model with the continuous Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Matthew D. Reichl , Charo I. Del Genio , Kevin E. Bassler

We perform Monte Carlo simulations to study the two dimensional random-bond XY model on a square lattice. Two kinds of bond randomness with the coupling coefficient obeying the Gaussian or uniform distribution are discussed. It is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-23 Yi-Bo Deng , Qiang Gu

We investigate the 2d XY model by using the constraint angle action, which belongs to the class of topological lattice actions. These actions violate important features usually demanded for a lattice action, such as the correct classical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-02-12 Urs Gerber , Wolfgang Bietenholz , Fernando G Rejón-Barrera

One-dimensional model of a system where first-order phase transition occurs is examined in the present paper. It is shown that basic properties of the phenomenon, such as a well defined temperature of transition, are caused both by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-29 Marcin Ostrowski

An $XY$ model, generalized by inclusion of up to an infinite number of higher-order pairwise interactions with an exponentially decreasing strength, is studied by spin-wave theory and Monte Carlo simulations. At low temperatures the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-18 Milan Žukovič , Georgii Kalagov

Using elementary methods we obtain a power-law lower bound on the two-point function of the planar XY spin model at low temperatures. This was famously first rigorously obtained by Fr\"{o}hlich and Spencer and establishes a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Diederik van Engelenburg , Marcin Lis

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

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

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

We propose generalized variants of the $XY$ model capable of exhibiting an arbitrary number of phase transitions only by varying temperature. They are constructed by supplementing the magnetic coupling with $n_t-1$ nematic terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Milan Žukovič

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 study the quantum entanglement and quantum phase transition of the non-Hermitian anisotropic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ XY model and XXZ model with the staggered imaginary field by analytical methods and numerical exact diagonalization,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 Ling-Feng Zhang , Wing Chi Yu

The two-dimensional ($2d$) fully frustrated Planar Rotator model on a square lattice has been the subject of a long controversy due to the simultaneous $Z_2$ and $O(2)$ symmetry existing in the model. The $O(2)$ symmetry being responsible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 A. B. Lima , B. V. Costa

By combining different ideas, a general and efficient protocol to deal with discontinuous phase transitions at low temperatures is proposed. For small $T$'s, it is possible to derive a generic analytic expression for appropriate order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. E. Fiore , M. G. E. da Luz

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

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

Monte Carlo simulations of the two-dimensional XY model are performed in a square geometry with fixed boundary conditions. Using a conformal mapping it is very easy to deduce the exponent eta_sigma(T) of the order parameter correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Berche , A. Farinas Sanchez , R. Paredes

The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type phase transitions in two-dimensional systems with internal abelian continuous symmetries are investigated. The necessary conditions for they can take place are: 1) conformal invariance of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. A. Bulgadaev