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In this paper, we study the annealed ferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on sparse rank-1 random graphs, where vertices are equipped with a vertex weight, and the probability of an edge is proportional to the product of the vertex weights.…

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

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is a typical topological phase transition defined between binding and unbinding states of vortices and antivortices, which is not accompanied by spontaneous symmetry breaking. It is known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-14 Masahito Mochizuki , Yusuke Miyajima

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

We demonstrate that a machine learning technique with a simple feedforward neural network can sensitively detect two successive phase transitions associated with the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase in q-state clock models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-13 Yusuke Miyajima , Yusuke Murata , Yasuhiro Tanaka , Masahito Mochizuki

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

The Potts model is one of the most popular spin models of statistical physics. The prevailing majority of work done so far corresponds to the lattice version of the model. However, many natural or man-made systems are much better described…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-16 M. Krasnytska , B. Berche , Yu. Holovatch

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

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the prototype of a phase transition driven by the formation and interaction of topological defects in two-dimensional (2D) systems. In typical models these are vortices: above a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-27 M. C. Diamantini , C. A. Trugenberger , V. M. Vinokur

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

Using Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling, we study three-state Potts antiferromagnet on layered square lattice with two and four layers $L_z=2$ and $4$. As temperature decreases, the system develops quasi-long-range order via a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Chengxiang Ding , Wenan Guo , Youjin Deng

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. A classical analog of the entanglement entropy…

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

The unusual reentrant phenomenon is observed in the anisotropic 3-state Potts model on a gen- eralized Kagome lattice. By employing the linearized tensor renormalization group method, we find that the reentrance can appear in the region not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Zhao , Wei Li , Bin Xi , Zhe Zhang , Xin Yan , Shi-Ju Ran , Tao Liu , Gang Su

It is known rigorously that the phase transition of the $q$-state ferromagnetic Potts model on the square lattice is second order for $q=4$. Despite this fact, some observables of the $q=4$ model show features of a first-order phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Yuan-Heng Tseng , Shang-Wei Li , Fu-Jiun Jiang

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is an archetypal example of a topological phase transition, which is driven by the proliferation of vortices. In this Letter, we analyze the persistence of the BKT transition in the XY…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-11 Luis Walther , Josef Willsher , Johannes Knolle

Several power-law critical properties involving different statistics in natural languages -- reminiscent of scaling properties of physical systems at or near phase transitions -- have been documented for decades. The recent rise of large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-23 Yuma Toji , Jun Takahashi , Vwani Roychowdhury , Hideyuki Miyahara

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

In the two-dimensional superfluidity, the proliferation of the vortices and the anti-vortices results in a new class of phase transition, Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. This class of the phase transitions is also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chyh-Hong Chern

We analyze numerically how the voltage-current (V-I) characteristics near the so-called Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition of 2D superconductors are affected by a random spatial Gaussian distribution of critical temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Noelia Coton , Manuel V. Ramallo , Felix Vidal

We analyze the phase transitions that emerge from the recursive design of certain hyperbolic networks that includes, for instance, a discontinuous ("explosive") transition in ordinary percolation. To this end, we solve the $q$-state Potts…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-21 Vijay Singh , C. T. Brunson , Stefan Boettcher
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