Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a Two-Dimensional Driven Open Quantum System
The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism, in which a phase transition is mediated by the proliferation of topological defects, governs the critical behavior of a wide range of equilibrium two-dimensional systems with a continuous symmetry, ranging from spin systems to superconducting thin films...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041028 |