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The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition (Energy-Entropy Arguments and Renormalization in Defect Gases)

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The study of phase transitions and of the approach to critical points in physical systems in thermal equilibrium is an important part of equilibrium statistical mechanics, but its significance goes beyond statistical physics proper: It is crucial for condensed matter physics and for relativistic quantum field theory.

Work supported in part by the NSF under grant DMR 81-00417

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Fröhlich, J., Spencer, T. (1983). The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition (Energy-Entropy Arguments and Renormalization in Defect Gases). In: Fröhlich, J. (eds) Scaling and Self-Similarity in Physics. Progress in Physics, vol 7. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6762-6_2

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