The KTHNY-theory describes the melting of crystals in two dimensions (2D). The name is derived from the initials of the surnames of John Michael Kosterlitz, David J. Thouless,[1][2] Bertrand Halperin, David R. Nelson,[3][4] and A. Peter Young,[5] who developed the theory in the 1970s. It is, beside the Ising model in 2D and the XY model in 2D,[6][7] one of the few theories, which can be solved analytically and which predicts a phase transition at a temperature .
^Kosterlitz, J.M.; Thouless, D.J. (1972). "Long Range Order and Metastability in Two-Dimensional Solids and Superfluids". Journal of Physics C. 5: 124. doi:10.1088/0022-3719/5/11/002.
^Kosterlitz, J.M.; Thouless, D.J. (1973). "Ordering Metastability, and Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Systems". Journal of Physics C. 6 (1181): 1181–1203. Bibcode:1973JPhC....6.1181K. doi:10.1088/0022-3719/6/7/010.
^Nelson, D.R.; Halperin, B.I. (1979). "Dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions". Physical Review B. 19 (5): 2457–2484. Bibcode:1979PhRvB..19.2457N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.19.2457.
^Young, P.A. (1979). "Melting and the vector Coulomb gas in two dimensions". Physical Review B. 19 (4): 1855–1866. Bibcode:1979PhRvB..19.1855Y. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.19.1855.
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^Nelson, D.R.; Kosterlitz, J.M. (1977). "Universal Jump in the Superfluid Density of Two-Dimensional Superfluids". Physical Review Letters. 39 (19): 1201–1205. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..39.1201N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1201.
The KTHNY-theory describes the melting of crystals in two dimensions (2D). The name is derived from the initials of the surnames of John Michael Kosterlitz...
Therefore, the hexatic phase contains dislocations but no disclinations. The KTHNYtheory of two-step melting by i) destroying positional order and ii) destroying...
University. In the 1970s, he, together with David R. Nelson, worked out a theory of two-dimensional melting, predicting the hexatic phase before it was experimentally...
described within the so-called Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young-theory (KTHNYtheory), based on two transitions of Kosterlitz-Thouless-type. Transmission...
defects and play a central role in melting of 2D crystals within the KTHNYtheory, based on two Kosterlitz–Thouless transitions. Equally sized discs (spheres...