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Direct evidence of the discontinuous character of the Kosterlitz-Thouless jump
It is numerically shown that the discontinuous character of the helicity modulus of the two-dimensional XY model at the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition can be directly related to a higher-order derivative of the free energy without presuming any a priori knowledge of the nature of the transition. It is also suggested …