Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
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The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (also known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition) is a phase transition found in the two-dimensional XY model.
References
- V. L. Berezinskii "DESTRUCTION OF LONG-RANGE ORDER IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND 2-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS HAVING A CONTINUOUS SYMMETRY GROUP 1 - CLASSICAL SYSTEMS", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics 32 pp. 493 (1971)
- V. L. Berezinskii "DESTRUCTION OF LONG-RANGE ORDER IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND 2-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS POSSESSING A CONTINUOUS SYMMETRY GROUP .2. QUANTUM SYSTEMS", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics 34 pp. 610 (1972)
- J. M. Kosterlitz and D. J. Thouless "Long range order and metastability in two dimensional solids and superfluids. (Application of dislocation theory)", Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 5 pp. L124-L126 (1972)
- J. M. Kosterlitz and D. J. Thouless "Ordering, metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems", Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 6 pp. 1181-1203 (1973)
- B. I. Halperin and David R. Nelson "Theory of Two-Dimensional Melting", Physical Review Letters 41 pp. 121-124 (1978)
- A. P. Young "Melting and the vector Coulomb gas in two dimensions", Physical Review B 19 pp. 1855-1866 (1979)
- David R. Nelson and B. I. Halperin "Dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions", Physical Review B 19 pp. 2457-2484 (1979)
- Farid F. Abraham "Two-dimensional melting, solid-state stability, and the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Feynman criterion", Physical Review B 23 pp. 6145-6148 (1981)
- Katherine J. Strandburg "Two-dimensional melting", Reviews of Modern Physics 60 pp. 161-207 (1988)
- Kurt Binder, Surajit Sengupta and Peter Nielaba "The liquid-solid transition of hard discs: first-order transition or Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young scenario?", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14 pp. 2323-2333 (2002)