Direct Observation of the Proliferation of Ferroelectric Loop Domains<? format?> and Vortex-Antivortex Pairs

SC Chae, N Lee, Y Horibe, M Tanimura, S Mori, B Gao… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We discovered stripe patterns of trimerization-ferroelectric domains in hexagonal REMnO 3
(RE= Ho,⋯, Lu) crystals (grown below ferroelectric transition temperatures (T c), reaching up …

Universal window for two-dimensional critical exponents

A Taroni, ST Bramwell… - Journal of Physics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-dimensional condensed matter is realized in increasingly diverse forms that are
accessible to experiment and of potential technological value. The properties of these …

Quantum thermodynamically consistent local master equations

A Hewgill, G De Chiara, A Imparato - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Local master equations are a widespread tool to model open quantum systems, especially
in the context of many-body systems. These equations, however, are believed to lead to …

[HTML][HTML] Dualities and the phase diagram of the p-clock model

G Ortiz, E Cobanera, Z Nussinov - Nuclear Physics B, 2012 - Elsevier
A new “bond-algebraic” approach to duality transformations provides a very powerful
technique to analyze elementary excitations in the classical two-dimensional XY and p-clock …

Critical properties of the two-dimensional -state clock model

ZQ Li, LP Yang, ZY Xie, HH Tu, HJ Liao, T Xiang - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We perform the state-of-the-art tensor network simulations directly in the thermodynamic limit
to clarify the critical properties of the q-state clock model on the square lattice. We determine …

Susceptibility of polar flocks to spatial anisotropy

A Solon, H Chaté, J Toner, J Tailleur - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We study the effect of spatial anisotropy on polar flocks by investigating active q-state clock
models in two dimensions. In contrast to the equilibrium case, we find that any amount of …

Machine learning detection of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in -state clock models

Y Miyajima, Y Murata, Y Tanaka, M Mochizuki - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate that a machine learning technique with a simple feedforward neural
network can sensitively detect two successive phase transitions associated with the …

Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition on regular and Villain types of q-state clock models

T Surungan, S Masuda, Y Komura… - Journal of Physics A …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study q-state clock models of regular and Villain types with using cluster-spin updates
and observed double transitions in each model. We calculate the correlation ratio and size …

Unsupervised learning of phase transitions via modified anomaly detection with autoencoders

KK Ng, MF Yang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In this paper, a modified method of anomaly detection using convolutional autoencoders is
employed to predict phase transitions in several statistical mechanical models on a square …

Finite-temperature behavior of a classical spin-orbit-coupled model for with and without bond disorder

E Parker, L Balents - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We present the results of finite-temperature classical Monte Carlo simulations of a strongly
spin-orbit-coupled nearest-neighbor triangular-lattice model for the candidate U (1) quantum …