Introduction to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition
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This essay examines the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thousless transition in the two-dimensional XY model. It is an imporant example of phase transitions occuring without an ordered phase or symmetry breaking, and introduced topological ideas into the concerns of condensed matter physicists.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013