Extinction of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition by nonmagnetic disorder in planar symmetry spin models

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Wysin, G M ^a,c   Pereira, A R ^a   Marques, I A ^b   Leonel, S A ^b   Coura, P Z ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 29744449344     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.094418     Document Type: Article

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