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Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Mayer Expansion

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Critical Phenomena

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We discuss the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the 2D XY model by the Mayer expansion after transforming the model into a 2D Coulomb gas system by the duality transformation.

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  1. Keiichi R. Ito

    Present address: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Wellenberg 1, D-4800, Bielefeld 1, F.R. Germany

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Bedford College University of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NS, UK

    Keiichi R. Ito

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  1. Central Institute of Physics, POB MG6, Bucharest, Romania

    Valentin Ceauşescu , Gabriel Costache  & Vladimir Georgescu ,  & 

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Ito, K.R. (1985). Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Mayer Expansion. In: Ceauşescu, V., Costache, G., Georgescu, V. (eds) Critical Phenomena. Progress in Physics, vol 11. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6650-6_1

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