Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

)also known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition)

References

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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)