The two-dimensional Coulomb gas, vortex unbinding, and superfluid-superconducting films

P Minnhagen - Reviews of modern physics, 1987 - APS
The article reviews the two-dimensional Coulomb gas model and its connection to vortex
fluctuations for a two-dimensional superfluid. The neutral and non-neutral versions of the …

Kosterlitz–Thouless physics: a review of key issues

JM Kosterlitz - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews, from a very personal point of view, the origins and the early work on
transitions driven by topological defects such as vortices in the two dimensional planar rotor …

Two-dimensional superconductivity and anisotropic transport at KTaO3 (111) interfaces

C Liu, X Yan, D **, Y Ma, HW Hsiao, Y Lin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The distinctive electronic structure found at interfaces between materials can allow
unconventional quantum states to emerge. Here we report on the discovery of …

Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in proximity-coupled superconducting arrays

DJ Resnick, JC Garland, JT Boyd, S Shoemaker… - Physical Review Letters, 1981 - APS
Abstract Evidence for the Kosterlitz-Thouless vortex unbinding transition is reported in
triangular planar arrays of proximity-coupled Pb-Sn junctions. The temperature dependence …

Evidence of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase in a frustrated magnet

Z Hu, Z Ma, YD Liao, H Li, C Ma, Y Cui… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) mechanism, building upon proliferation
of topological defects in 2D systems, is the first example of phase transition beyond the …

Superfluid stiffness of a KTaO3-based two-dimensional electron gas

S Mallik, GC Ménard, G Saïz, H Witt, J Lesueur… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
After almost twenty years of intense work on the celebrated LaAlO3/SrTiO3system, the
recent discovery of a superconducting two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) in (111) …

Two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thickness

T Uchihashi - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress in two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thickness is
reviewed mainly from the experimental point of view. The superconducting systems treated …

Vortex-glass phases in type-II superconductors

T Nattermann, S Scheidl - Advances in Physics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
A review is given on the theory of vortex-glass phases in impure type-II superconductors in
an external field. We begin with a brief discussion of the effects of thermal fluctuations on the …

Theoretical interpretation of resistive transition data from arrays of superconducting weak links

CJ Lobb, DW Abraham, M Tinkham - Physical Review B, 1983 - APS
The effects of a vortex-unbinding phase transition on the properties of a square lattice of
superconducting weak links are discussed. Formulas relating bulk static quantities such as …

Superconductor-insulator transition in two-dimensional dirty boson systems

M Wallin, ES So, SM Girvin, AP Young - Physical Review B, 1994 - APS
Universal properties of the zero-temperature superconductor-insulator transition in two-
dimensional amorphous films are studied by extensive Monte Carlo simulations of bosons in …