Kosterlitz–Thouless Transition - Wikipedia - Josephson junction ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata - Author: **Josephson junction** - Full Title: Kosterlitz–Thouless Transition - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosterlitz%E2%80%93Thouless_transition ## Highlights - The Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature