Non-universal Kosterlitz-Thouless jumps
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Petter Minnhagen; Hans Weber
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Article
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1988
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Renormalization equations for the Kosterlitz-Thouless vortex-unbinding transition indicate that this transition may be either continuous and of infinite order ("usual" Kosterlitz-Thouless transition) or discontinuous (non-universal jumps, etc.). Results from Monte Carlo simulations aiming at verifyi