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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

Boundary correlation functions provide insight into the emergence of an effective geometry in higher spin gravity duals of O(N) or U(N) symmetric field theories. On a compact manifold, the singlet constraint leads to nontrivial dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Irene Amado , Bo Sundborg , Larus Thorlacius , Nico Wintergerst

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

We obtain a representation of the free energy of an XY model on a fully connected graph with spins subjected to a random crystal field of strength $D$ and with random orientation $\alpha$. Results are obtained for an arbitrary probability…

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We analyze the surface energy and boundary layers for a chain of atoms at low temperature for an interaction potential of Lennard-Jones type. The pressure (stress) is assumed small but positive and bounded away from zero, while the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Sabine Jansen , Wolfgang König , Bernd Schmidt , Florian Theil

A half-century after the discovery of the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT), one of the fundamental predictions of the theory, the charge Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition that is expected to occur at the insulating…

We show how one can obtain geometric scaling properties from the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. We start by explaining how, this property arises for the b-independent BK equation. We show that it is possible to extend this model to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Soyez , C. Marquet , R. Peschanski

The modified XY model is a variation of the XY model extended by a half periodic term, exhibiting a rich phase structure. As the Goldstone model, also known as the linear O(2) model, can be obtained as a continuum and regular model for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-11 Michikazu Kobayashi , Gergely Fejős , Chandrasekhar Chatterjee , Muneto Nitta

Phase diagrams and electronic transport properties of the helical states in purely two-dimensional (2D) Rashba superconductors coupled with in-plane Zeeman fields are studied. The continuum XY action is derived microscopically by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-17 Naratip Nunchot , Youichi Yanase

We explore the implications of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) critical behavior on the two dimensional (2D) quantum superconductor-insulator (QSI) transition driven by the tuning parameter x. Concentrating on the sheet resistance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Schneider , S. Weyeneth

We present a controlled numerical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling, providing evidence of the characteristic logarithmic finite-size scaling of the BKT…

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

We reveal the key role of the $d$-wave symmetry of the superconducting gap in strongly coupled two-dimensional superconductors in determining the properties of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, associated with a sizable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-21 Sathish Kumar Paramasivam , Andrea Perali , Milorad V. Milošević

We study the large-$N$ dynamics of $T\bar{T}$-deformed two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory at genus zero. The 1/$N$-expansion of the free energy is obtained by exploiting the associated flow equation and the complete phase diagram of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Luca Griguolo , Rodolfo Panerai , Jacopo Papalini , Domenico Seminara

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition is considered in the condition of lowest temperatures, when thermal fluctuations give place to quantum ones. For this goal, the critical dynamic of the Sine-Gordon model near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-23 Mikhail Vasin

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs), including symmetry breaking and topological types, always associated with gap closing and opening. We analyze the topological features of the quantum phase boundary of the XY model in a transverse magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-17 X. M. Yang , G. Zhang , Z. Song

The scalar field theory and the scalar electrodynamics quantized in the flat gap are considered. The dynamical effects arising due to the boundary presence with two types of boundary conditions (BC) satisfied by scalar fields are studied.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-27 A. N. Sissakian , O. Yu. Shevchenko , V. N. Samoilov

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

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