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In this chapter, we will study how certain kinds of order are destroyed by thermal excitations. We will focus initially on crystals in different dimensions. The simplest excitations are the linear ones, phonons.
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Berlinsky, A.J., Harris, A.B. (2019). Kosterlitz-Thouless Physics. In: Statistical Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28187-8_21
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