The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in helium-4 films and spiral spin systems /

This research studies phase transitions in two-dimensional systems with a continuous symmetry group. In 1966 Mermin and Wagner showed that such systems exhibit no true long range order(l). However, they still undergo a phase transition at a critical temperature T, from a high temperature phase, wh...

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Main Author:	Collins, Mark Vincent
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
Subjects:	Major physics.
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