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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

Using the two dimensional $XY-(S(O(3))$ model as a test case, we show that analysis of the Fisher zeros of the canonical partition function can provide signatures of a transition in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless ($BKT$) universality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-21 J. C. S. Rocha , L. A. S. Mól , B. V. Costa

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is expected to have a clear signature on the specific heat. The singularity at the transition temperature $T_{BKT}$ is predicted to be immeasurable, and a broad non-universal peak is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-22 T. D. Nguyen , A. Frydman , O. Bourgeois

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transitions of the six-state clock model on the square lattice are investigated by means of the corner-transfer matrix renormalization group method. The classical analogue of the entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-27 Roman Krčmár , Andrej Gendiar , Tomotoshi Nishino

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

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

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

We perform large-scale, numerically exact calculations on the two-dimensional interacting Fermi gas with a contact attraction. Reaching much larger lattice sizes and lower temperatures than previously possible, we determine systematically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-15 Yuan-Yao He , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We test an improved finite-size scaling method for reliably extracting the critical temperature $T_{\rm BKT}$ of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. Using known single-parameter logarithmic corrections to the spin stiffness…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-02 Yun-Da Hsieh , Ying-Jer Kao , A. W. Sandvik

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

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

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

We report a light-driven non-equilibrium vortex Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in a superconductor. We use a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model to demonstrate vortex-antivortex deconfinement via light induced fields. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-28 Tien-Tien Yeh , Evan Wilson , Mikael Fogelström , Alexander Balatsky

The quantum XY model shows a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition between a phase with quasi long-range order and a disordered one, like the corresponding classical model. The effect of the quantum fluctuations is to weaken the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Luca Capriotti , Alessandro Cuccoli , Andrea Fubini , Valerio Tognetti , Ruggero Vaia

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in ultra-thin NbN films is investigated in the presence of weak perpendicular magnetic fields. A jump in the phase stiffness at the BKT transition is detected up to 5 G, while the BKT…

The experimental observation of traditional Zeeman-field induced Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superfluids has been hindered by various challenges, in particular, the requirement of low dimensional systems. In 2D, finite…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-24 Yong Xu , Chuanwei Zhang

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

We numerically study the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition of a spin-1 spinor Bose gas under the quadratic Zeeman effect. A calculation of the mass and spin superfluid densities shows that (i) the BKT transition occurs only…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-22 Michikazu Kobayashi

We perform a detailed finite-size scaling analysis of the sheet resistance in Bi-films and the LaAlO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ interface in the presence and absence of a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the system. Our main aim is to explore…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 T. Schneider , S. Weyeneth