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why KT phase transition is considered different from a second order phase transition? |
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| Sep11-12, 03:11 PM | #1 |
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why KT phase transition is considered different from a second order phase transition?
i cannot see the reason
what makes KT phase transition different from the ferro-para phase transition of the 2D ising model? |
| Sep11-12, 06:09 PM | #2 |
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There is no local order parameter in the KT transition, so it's "topological" rather than "symmetry breaking".
http://www.itp.uzh.ch/~llucas/projects/proseminar.pdf http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/course/20...transition.pdf http://www.mit.edu/~levitov/8.334/notes/XYnotes1.pdf |
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