Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
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The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (also known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition)[1] [2] [3] [4] is a phase transition found in the two-dimensional XY model. Below the transition temperature, , the system plays host to a 'liquid' of vortex-antivortex pairs that have zero total vorticity. Above these pairs break up into a gas of independent vortices.
References
- ↑ V. L. Berezinskii "Destruction of Long-range Order in One-dimensional and Two-dimensional Systems having a Continuous Symmetry Group I. Classical Systems", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics 32 pp. 493 (1971)
- ↑ V. L. Berezinskii "Destruction of Long-range Order in One-dimensional and Two-dimensional Systems Possessing a Continuous Symmetry Group. II. 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)
- Related reading
- 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 "Melting in Two Dimensions is First Order: An Isothermal-Isobaric Monte Carlo Study", Physical Review Letters 44 pp. 463-466 (1980)
- 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)
- Hagen Kleinert Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter, Vol. I, " SUPERFLOW AND VORTEX LINES", pp. 1–742, Vol. II, "STRESSES AND DEFECTS", pp. 743–1456, World Scientific (Singapore, 1989); Paperback ISBN 9971-5-0210-0 (also available online: Vol. I and Vol. II)
- 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)
- "40 Years of Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless Theory" (Ed. Jorge V José) World Scientific Publishing (2013) ISBN 978-981-4417-63-1
- Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 'Scientific Background'