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Universal Jump in the Helicity Modulus of the Two-Dimensional Quantum XY Model

Kenji Harada, Naoki Kawashima

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9702081

Abstract

The helicity modulus of the S=1/2 XY model is precisely estimated through a world line quantum Monte Carlo method enhanced by a cluster update algorithm. The obtained estimates for various system sizes and temperatures are well fitted by a scaling form with L replaced by (L/L0), which is inferred from the solution of the Kosterlitz renormalization group equation. The validity of the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory for this model is confirmed.

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