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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Comment on "Six-state clock model on the square lattice: Fisher zero approach with Wang-Landau sampling"
Seung Ki Baek1, Petter Minnhagen, Beom Jun Kim
1Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Abstract:
Hwang in [Phys. Rev. E 80, 042103 (2009)] suggested that the two transitions of the six-state clock model on the square lattice are not of the Kosterlitz-Thouless type. Here we show from simulations that at the upper transition, the helicity modulus does make a discontinuous jump to zero. This gives strong evidence for a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition.
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