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Kosterlitz-thouless Transition

The Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition is a topological phase transition in two-dimensional systems characterized by the unbinding of vortex-antivortex pairs, distinguishing it from conventional symmetry-breaking transitions through its reliance on topological defects and infinite-order criticality.

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Variants

Berezinskii-kosterlitz-thouless TransitionBkt TransitionKt Transition

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951

Melting and the vector Coulomb gas in two dimensions

A. P. Young · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1979 · 1.5K citations

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Two-dimensional vortices in a stack of thin superconducting films: A model for high-temperature superconducting multilayers

John R. Clem · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1991 · 943 citations

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Spontaneous interlayer coherence in double-layer quantum Hall systems: Charged vortices and Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions

Kyungsun Moon, Hiroyuki Mori, Kun Yang et al. · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1995 · 675 citations · Full text

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Dynamics of superfluid films

Vinay Ambegaokar, Bertrand I. Halperin, David R. Nelson et al. · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1980 · 615 citations

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Possibility of Vortex-Antivortex Pair Dissociation in Two-Dimensional Superconductors

M. R. Beasley, J. E. Mooij, Terry P. Orlando · Physical Review Letters · 1979 · 586 citations

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    Petter Minnhagen

    Umeå University, Sweden

    17 publications · 564 citations

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    Yu. E. Lozovik

    Institute of Spectroscopy, Russia

    13 publications · 430 citations

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    Oleg L. Berman

    New York City College of Technology, United States

    12 publications · 453 citations

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  4. LB
    Lara Benfatto

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

    11 publications · 588 citations

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  5. AC
    Alessandro Cuccoli

    University of Florence, Italy

    9 publications · 251 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    34 h-index

    154 publications

    8.2K citations

  2. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    22 h-index

    71 publications

    3.4K citations

  3. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    39 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    16 h-index

    37 publications

    3.8K citations

  5. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique

    Toulouse, France

    15 h-index

    29 publications

    1.4K citations

  6. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    14 h-index

    24 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. Umeå University

    Umeå, Sweden

    14 h-index

    30 publications

    982 citations

  8. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    14 h-index

    30 publications

    2.9K citations

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  2. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

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  3. Physical Review B

    PRB · 83 publications · 3.4K citations

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    PRB · 54 publications · 2.3K citations

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    PRA · 31 publications · 1.4K citations

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