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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

It is argued that two-dimensional U(N) spin models for any N undergo a BKT-like phase transition, similarly to the famous XY model. This conclusion follows from the Berezinskii-like calculation of the two-point correlation function in U(N)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-07-13 Oleg Borisenko , Volodymyr Chelnokov , Francesca Cuteri , Alessandro Papa

We introduce and study the properties of a periodic model interpolating between the sine-- and the sinh--Gordon theories in $1+1$ dimensions. This model shows the peculiarities, due to the preservation of the functional form of their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-11 N. Defenu , V. Bacsó , I. G. Márián , I. Nándori , A. Trombettoni

The 2d XY model exhibits an essential phase transition, which was predicted long ago --- by Berezinskii, Kosterlitz and Thouless (BKT) --- to be driven by the (un)binding of vortex--anti-vortex pairs. This transition has been confirmed for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-16 Wolfgang Bietenholz , Urs Gerber , Fernando G. Rejón-Barrera

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) essential phase transition in the 2d XY model is revisited. Its mechanism is usually described by the (un)binding of vortex--anti-vortex (V--AV) pairs, which does, however, not provide a clear-cut…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-02 Brandon Gómez Bravo , Bryan D. Juárez Hernández , Wolfgang Bietenholz

We investigate the general features of the renormalization-group flow at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, providing a thorough quantitative description of the asymptotc critical behavior, including the multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-19 Andrea Pelissetto , Ettore Vicari

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

We discuss the d=2 quantum O(2)xO(2) nonlinear sigma model as a low-energy theory of phase reconstruction near a quantum critical point. We first examine the evolution of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition as the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-05 C. A. Hooley , S. T. Carr , J. M. Fellows , J. Schmalian

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 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

Long-range and anisotropic dipolar interactions induce complex order in quantum systems. It becomes particularly interesting in two-dimension (2D), where the superfluidity with quasi-long-range order emerges via…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-14 Yifei He , Ziting Chen , Haoting Zhen , Mingchen Huang , Mithilesh K Parit , Gyu-Boong Jo

We study the universal critical behavior of two-dimensional (2D) lattice bosonic gases at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, which separates the low-temperature superfluid phase from the high-temperature normal phase. For…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-09 G. Ceccarelli , J. Nespolo , A. Pelissetto , E. Vicari

We investigate critical phenomena in the $O(2)$ models using symmetry-twisted partition functions that can be efficiently computed within the tensor renormalization group framework. We first demonstrate, taking the three-dimensional model…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-04 Shinichiro Akiyama , Raghav G. Jha , Jun Maeda , Yuya Tanizaki , Judah Unmuth-Yockey

We study the chiral phase transition in (2+1)d strongly coupled U(N) lattice gauge theories with staggered fermions. We show with high precision simulations performed directly in the chiral limit that these models undergo a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Costas G. Strouthos

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

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

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 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 the past decades considerable efforts have been made in order to understand the critical features of both classical and quantum long-range interacting models. The case of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) universality class, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-17 Guido Giachetti , Andrea Trombettoni , Stefano Ruffo , Nicolò Defenu

Intriguing phases may emerge when two-dimensional systems are coupled in a bilayer configuration. In particular, a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) paired superfluid phase was predicted and claimed to be numerically observed in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Tianning Xiao , Youjin Deng , Xiao-Yu Dong