Using zeros of the canonical partition function map to detect signatures of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

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Abstract

Using the two dimensional XY−(S(O(3))XY-(S(O(3)) model as a test case, we show that analysis of the Fisher zeros of the canonical partition function can provide signatures of a transition in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKTBKT) universality class. Studying the internal border of zeros in the complex temperature plane, we found a scenario in complete agreement with theoretical expectations which allow one to uniquely classify a phase transition as in the BKTBKT class of universality. We obtain TBKTT_{BKT} in excellent accordance with previous results. A careful analysis of the behavior of the zeros for both regions Re(T)≤TBKT\mathfrak{Re}(T) \leq T_{BKT} and Re(T)>TBKT\mathfrak{Re}(T) > T_{BKT} in the thermodynamic limit show that Im(T)\mathfrak{Im}(T) goes to zero in the former case and is finite in the last one.

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